916 Quotes by Fernando Pessoa

The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn’t weigh like a load of jewels.

I sleep and unsleep.

To observe oneself as one observes nature; to gaze on one’s impressions as one would on a field – that is true wisdom.

Renunciation is liberation. Not wanting is power.

I have never been anything more than a mere vestige, a simulacrum of myself.

We know that the book we will never write will be bad. Even worse will be the one we put off writing. At least the book that has been written exists.

As adults our life is reduced to giving alms to others and receiving them in return. We squander our personalities in orgies of coexistence.

To kill our dream life would be to kill ourselves, to mutilate our soul. Dreaming is the one thing we have that’s really ours, invulnerably and inalterably ours.

Being eternally at a point where two paths fork!