8 Fernando Pessoa Quotes on Thinking

Fernando Pessoa quotes on thinking

27. A tedium that includes only the anticipation of more tedium; the regret, now, of tomorrow regretting having regretted today.

32. I have now so many fundamental thoughts, so many really metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write more, not to think more, but allow the fever of saying to make me sleepy, and fondle, with closed eyes, as if to a cat, all that I could have said.

43. There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.

78. All problemas are unsolvable. The essence of the existence of a problem is that there is no solution. Looking for a fact means there is no fact. To think is not to know how to be.

93. Irony is the first hint that consciousness became conscious.

104. Common man, no matter how hard life is to him, at least has the fortune of not thinking it.

105. To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.

151. And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.