19 Fernando Pessoa Quotes on Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa quotes on pessoa

3. All beginnings are unvoluntary.

6. Faithful to the word given and the idea had. / All else is up to God!

22. Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes.

23. Strenght without agility is a mere mass.

25. I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.

29. We become sphynxes, though fake, up to the point we no longer know who we are.

30. Fraternity has subtleties.

33. I'm all those things, even though I don't want to, in the confuse depth of my fatal sensibility.

47. In order to understand, I destroyed myself.

61. What, I believe, produces in me the deep feeling, in which I live, of incongruity with others, is that most think with sensitivity, while I feel with thought.

63. I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.

69. If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.

77. To act is to rest.

81. To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.

114. Art lies because it's social.

141. Yet I have no stylistic nobility. My head aches because my head aches. The universe aches me because my head aches.

159. Humanitarianim is rude.

162. De sonhar ninguem se cansa, porque sonhar e esquecer, e esquecer nao pesa e e um sono sem sonhos em que estamos despertos.

163. Primeiro estranha-se, depois entranha-se.