916 Quotes by Fernando Pessoa

It could have been any number of things: hardship, grief or simply the suffering born of the indifference that comes from having suffered too much.

Give me some more wine, because life is nothing.

It all comes down to trying to experience tedium in a way that does not hurt.

One man reads in order to know, all in vain. Another enjoys himself in order to live, again all in vain.

Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I’m like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn’t know what, having forgotten it in his dreaming as the search got under way.

Since I wasn’t able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

I don’t write in Portuguese. I write myself.

I Know, I Alone I know, I alone How much it hurts, this heart With no faith nor law Nor melody nor thought. Only I, only I And none of this can I say Because feeling is like the sky – Seen, nothing in it to see.

We should be content with the incomprehensibility of the universe; the desire to understand makes us less than human, for to be human is to know that one does not understand.