Quotes from Fernando Pessoa

Mi sono moltiplicato per sentirmi. Per sentirmi ho dovuto sentire tutto, sono straripato, non ho fatto altro che traboccarmi.

A tua janela é alta, A tua casa branquinha. Nada lhe sobra ou lhe falta Senão morares sozinha.

I tak, nie umiejÄ…c wierzy? w Boga ani w zwierzÄ™cÄ… zbiorowo??, nabraÅ'em - jak wszyscy inni ludzie na skraju - tego dystansu wobec wszystkiego, który nazywa siÄ™ powszechnie DekadencjÄ…. Dekadencja to caÅ'kowita utrata nieÅ›wiadomoÅ›ci, a nieÅ›wiadomo?? to fundament ?ycia. Gdyby serce mogÅ'o myÅ›le?, przestaÅ'oby bi?.

The child is still there but has fallen silent. I see the way I saw, but from behind my eyes I see myself seeing, and that is enough to darken the sun, to make the green of the trees old, and to wilt the flowers before they open.

Do not make the infantile mistake of asking the meaning of things and words. Nothing has any meaning.

Tenho que escolher o que detesto — ou o sonho, que a minha inteligência odeia, ou a ação, que a minha sensibilidade repugna; ou a ação, para que não nasci, ou o sonho, para que ninguém nasceu. Resulta que, como detesto ambos, não escolho nenhum; mas, como hei-de, em certa ocasião, ou sonhar ou agir, misturo uma coisa com outra.

I'll die as I've lived, amid all the junk on the outskirts, sold by weight among the postscripts of the broken.

A senhora da Agonia Tem um nicho na Igreja. Mas a dor que me agonia Não tem ninguém quem a veja.

Never to feel one's feelings wholeheartedly and then to elevate that wan victory to the point of being able to regard one's own ambitions, longings and desires with indifference; to pass by one's joys and griefs as one would a person in whom one feels no interest.

And all that remains is me, a poor abandoned child, whom no Love wanted as an adopted son, and no Friendship chose as a playmate.

The great anguishes of the soul always come upon us like cosmic cataclysms. When they do, the sun errs from its course and the stars are troubled. A day will come to every feeling soul when Fate stages an apocalypse of anguish, an upturning of all known heavens and universes over the soul's desolation.

The world belongs to the unfeeling. The essential condition for being a practical man is the absence of any sensitivity

I'm nothing. I'll always be nothing. I can't want to be something. But I have in me all the dreams of the world.

Compreender um ao outro É um jogo complicado. Pois quem engana não sabe Se não estava enganado.

Tudo isto é quanto a vida vale: homens e mulheres, amores supostos e vaidades factícias, subterfúgios da digestão e do esquecimento, gente remexendo-se, como bichos quando se levanta uma pedra, sob o grande pedregulho abstrato do céu azul sem sentido.

Consoler of the inconsolable, Tears of those who never cry, Hour that never sounds — free me from joy and happiness.

Disasters in novels are always beautiful because no real blood is shed in them, nor do the dead rot; in novels, not even rottenness is rotten.

O mal verdadeiro, o único mal, são as convenções e as ficções sociais, que se sobrepõem às realidades naturais, tudo, desde a família ao dinheiro, desde a religião ao Estado.

Depending on how you look at it, anything can be both astonishing and an obstacle, everything and nothing, a way forward or a cause for concern. Looking at something differently each time means renewing it and multiplying it.

For me this sun, these meadows and these flowers are enough. But if they weren't enough, What I would want is a sun more sun than the sun, Meadows more meadows than these meadows, Flowers more flowers than these flowers— Everything more ideal than what it is, in the same way and same manner! That thing over there more there than it is!

I saw dawn break and felt happy; today I see dawn break, feel happy, and become sad. The child is still there but has fallen silent. I see the way I saw, but from behind my eyes I see myself seeing, and that is enough to darken the sun, to make the green of the trees old, and to wilt the flowers before they open.

From birth to death, man is the slave of the same external dimension that rules animals. Throughout his life he doesn't live, he vegetatively thrives, with greater intensity and complexity than an animal.

el afán de alcanzar algo es menor que lo que logramos alcanzar.

O amor é um sonho que chega para o pouco ser que se é.