916 Quotes by Fernando Pessoa

But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is – is that living?

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there’s no palace till it’s built.

I am nothing. I’ll never be anything. I couldn’t want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It’s faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.

We never know self-realization. We are two abysses – a well staring at the sky.

Stones in the road? I save every single one, and one day I’ll build a castle.

Do not make the infantile mistake of asking the meaning of things and words. Nothing has any meaning.

I created myself, echo and abyss, by thinking. I multiplied myself by going deeply into myself...

Recognizing that reality is a kind of illusion, and that illusion is a kind of reality, is simultaneously necessary and pointless.