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Fernando Pessoa Quotes

Total quotes: 10
“I’ve never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.”
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Tagged: Dreaming, Dreams, Dreamer, Life, Inner Life, Life's Meaning, Inspirational
“I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to me to be full of poetry. The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness.”
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Tagged: Self-Love
“I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything.”
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Tagged: Dreams, Dreaming, dreams come true, keep dreaming, Inspirational
“If I write what I feel, it’s to reduce the fever of feeling.”
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
Tagged: Writing, Feeling
“When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability with nobody. But all of this vanishes when I face someone in the flesh: I lose my intelligence, I can no longer speak, and after half an hour I just feel tired. Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping.”
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Introvert
“I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body.”
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Tagged: Art, Soul
“I don’t know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don’t know what to think or what I am.”
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
Tagged: Feelings, Confused, self doubt
“In order to understand, I destroyed myself.”
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
Tagged: Self-Destruct, Suffering
“My head and the universe ache me.”
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Tagged: Universe, Pain, Thoughts
“I’ve never aspired to be more than a dreamer. I paid no attention to those who spoke to me of living. I’ve always belonged to what isn’t where I am and to what I could never be. Whatever isn’t mine, no matter how base, has always had poetry for me. The only thing I’ve loved is nothing at all. The only thing I’ve desired is what I couldn’t even imagine. All I asked of life is that it go on by without my feeling it. All I demanded of love is that it never stop being a distant dream. In my own inner landscapes, all of them unreal, I’ve always been attracted to what’s in the distance, and the hazy aqueducts - almost out of sight in my dreamed landscapes - had a dreamy sweetness in relation to the rest of the landscape, a sweetness that enabled me to love them.”
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Tagged: Dreams, Poetry, Life
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