916 Quotes by Fernando Pessoa

His voice was hesitant and colourless, as in those who hope for nothing because it’s perfectly useless to hope.

I’m so cold, so weary in my abandonment. Go and find my Mother, O Wind.

There’s no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.

I’ve always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I’m not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect.

We are two abysses – a well staring at the sky.

I begin because I don’t have the strength to think; I finish because I don’t have the courage to quit.

All effort is pointless, but it passes the time. Reasoning is sterile, but amusing. Loving is tedious, but possibly preferable to not loving.

Art frees us, through illusion, from the squalor of being.

It offends me that a man can master the Devil, but not the Portuguese language.