916 Quotes by Fernando Pessoa

For who expects nothing, all that comes is grateful

In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation.

But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.

What is art but the denial of life?

Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.

To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.

…to know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect…

There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.

The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free.