Quotes from Fernando Pessoa

Necesitar el dominio sobre los demás es necesitar de los demás. El jefe es un subalterno.

Arroio, esse cantar, jovem e puro, Busca o oceano por achar; E a fala dos pinhais, marulho obscuro, É o som presente desse mar futuro, É a voz da terra ansiando pelo mar.

The total snuffing out of life and the soul, the complete banishment of all beings and people, the night without memory or illusion, the absence of past and future .....

On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable.

I'm the suburbs of a non-existent town, the long-winded commentary on a book never written. I'm no one, no one at all. I don't know how to feel, how to think, how to want. I'm a character of an unwritten novel, wafting in the air, dispersed without ever been, among the dreams of someone who didn't know how to complete me

Ah, how I'd love to fall right from here Through a trapdoor—clack!—to my grave! Life tastes to me like mild tobacco. All I ever did was smoke life away. What I really want is faith and peace And to get these sensations under control. Put an end to this, God! Open the floodgates! Enough of this comedy in my soul!

I don't know if this makes me suffer or if I simply accept it as my indifferent fate into which questions of suffering or acceptance do not enter.

I've already seen everything I've never seen. I've already seen everything I haven't yet seen.

As a man of ideals, perhaps my greatest aspiration really does not go beyond occupying this chair at this table in this café.

No nos gustan los espectáculos. Despreciamos a actores y danzarines. Todo espectáculo es la imitación degradada de lo que habría solamente que soñar.

I pass times, I pass silences; formless worlds pass by me.

The alcohol of grand words and long phrases that swell, like waves, with the breathing of their rhythms and then crash, smiling, with the irony of twisting snakes of foam and the sad magnificence of glimmering shadows …

Every married couple in the world is a mismatch because each person harbors, in the secret part of the soul that belongs to the Devil, the subtle image of the man they desire but who is not their husband, the nubile figure of the sublime woman their wife never was.

I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know who's seeking me. My boredom with everything has numbed me. I feel banished from my soul.

Las grandes melancolías, las tristezas llenas de tedio no pueden existir sino en un ambiente confortable y de lujo sobrio.

No sueño con poseerte. ¿Para qué? Sería traducir a plebeyo mi sueño. Poseer un cuerpo es ser banal. Soñar con poseer un cuerpo es tal vez peor, aunque sea difícil serlo: es soñarse banal, horror supremo.

Porque, al final, ¿quién soy, cuando no juego? Un pobre huérfano abandonado en la calle de las Sensaciones, tiritando de frío por las esquinas de la Realidad, que tiene que dormir en la escalinata de la Tristeza y comer el pan que le da la Fantasía.

Be pure, not in order to be noble or strong, but to be yourself.

The life one lives is one long misunderstanding, a happy medium between a greatness that does not exist and a happiness that cannot exist.

It is not tedium that one feels. It is not grief. It is the desire to go to sleep clothed in a different personality, to forget, dulled by an increase in salary.

Asemeni tuturor indivizilor cu o mare mobilitate mental?,am o iubire organic? ?i fatal? pentru fixitate.Detest orice via?? nou? ?i orice loc necunoscut.

En el fondo, lo que hay en nosotros de doloroso es lo que no somos en realidad y nuestras mayores tragedias corresponden a la idea que tenemos de nosotros mismos.

Mas só a ideia de ler se me desvanece se tomo de cima da mesa um livro qualquer, o facto físico de ter que ler anula-me a leitura.

In fact the end of the world, and its beginning, is merely our concept of the world.