Quotes from Fernando Pessoa

Sinto a tristeza tanto - uma sensação física de cansaço mental.

We achieve nothing. Life hurls us like a stone, and we sail through the air saying, 'Look at me move.

To be adept at deluding oneself is the first prerequisite for a statesman. Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act.

GörünüÅŸe bak?l?rsa uygarl?klar s?rf sanat ve edebiyat üretmek için var, kelimelerse onlardan bize kalan, bizimle konuÅŸan ÅŸeyler.

To think of our greatest anxiety as an insignificant event, not only in the life of the universe but also in the life of our own soul, is the beginning of wisdom.

Not even I know if this I that I'm disclosing to you, in these meandering pages, actually exists or is but a fictitious, aesthetic concept I've made of myself.

Everything in our activities that we hold to be superior participates in death and is death. What are ideals but an admission that life is worthless? What is art but the negation of life? A statue is a dead body, chiselled to capture death in incorruptible matter. Pleasure itself, which seems to be an immersion in life, is in fact an immersion in ourselves, a destruction of the relations between us and life, an excited shadow of death.

What matters is to know how to see, ... To know how to see when seeing

Ä°lerde bir gün gelecek olanlar daha ÅŸimdiden yaÅŸl?yd?; sadece hiç gelmeyecek olanlar gençti.

our pain is only grave and serious when we pretend it is.

Stones in the road? I save every single one, and one day I'll build a castle.

Is it truth I want? I'll go back to my novel …

Let's not even touch life with the tips of our fingers. Let's not even love in our minds. May we never know the feel of a woman's kiss, not even in our dreams.

Quando ti vidi, già da molto prima io ti avevo amato. Nell'incontrarti io ti ho ritrovato. ... Hai forse un segreto? Confidalo, che io so tutto di te, se me lo dirai con l'anima. Potrai dirmelo con parole difficili, e io capirò solo perché ti amo. Se il tuo segreto è triste, con te piangerò finché non lo dimenticherai. E se non puoi dirlo, dimmi che mi ami, e io capirò senza volere il tuo segreto.

nothing is what it is, but dreams are always dreams.)

La única actitud intelectual digna de una criatura superior es la de una fría y tranquila compasión por cuanto no es él mismo. No porque esa actitud tenga el más mínimo signo de ser justa y verdadera, sino porque es tan envidiable que necesario tenerla.

Niekada nepulk taip žemai, kad imtum skaityti paskaitas, - kad niekas nepamanyt?, jog peršame nuomon? arba nusileidžiame iki publikos lygio trokšdami su ja kalb?tis. Jeigu ji nori, tegu mus skaito.

Quando olhaste para trás, Não supus que era por mim. Mas sempre olhaste, e isso faz Que fosse melhor assim.

A life of aesthetic quietism, to prevent the insults and humiliations of life and the living from getting any closer than a loathsome periphery of our sensibility, outside the walls of our conscious soul.

Ah, l'orrore di morire! E trovare il mistero faccia a faccia senza poter evitarlo, senza potere...

La renuncia es la liberación. No querer es poder.

What could anyone confess that would be worth anything or serve any useful purpose? What has happened to us has either happened to everyone or to us alone; if the former it has no novelty value and if the latter it will be incomprehensible.

No soy nada. Nunca seré nada. No puedo querer ser nada. Aparté de esto, tengo en mí todos los sueños del mundo.

I want to be exactly like what I wanted to be and am not.