Quotes from Fernando Pessoa

And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.

Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can't be one in my body.

God wills, man dreams, the work is born.

The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free.

Art consists in making others feel what we feel.

Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.

Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.

Sometimes, when I wake up at night, I feel invisible hands weaving my destiny.

Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.

Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking.

Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.

I know not what tomorrow will bring.

I always live in the present. I don't know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing.

I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.