Quotes by Fernando Pessoa

About Fernando Pessoa:

Fernando Pessoa was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher, described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language. He also wrote in and translated from English and French.
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Todo es símbolo y atraso, y nosotros, los que somos dioses, sólo tenemos un grado más alto en una Orden, cuyos Superiores Incógnitos no sabemos quiénes son. Dios es el segundo en la Orden manifiesta, y no me dice quién es el Jefe de la Orden, e...

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Pero ¿de verdad vivimos? Vivir sin saber qué es la vida, ¿será vivir?.

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Ah! The anguish, the vile rage, the despair Of not being able to express With a shout, an extreme and bitter shout, The bleeding of my heart.

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The Complete Work is essentially dramatic, thought it takes different forms - prose passages in this first volume, poems and philosophies in other volumes. It's the product of the temperament I've been blessed or cursed with - I'm not sure which. All...

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Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.

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If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.

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Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only a piece of me I see in each fatal fragment - Only a piece of you and me!...

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Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice

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Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?

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Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!

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There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness

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To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.

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To be understood is to prostitute oneself

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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.

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All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.

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At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.

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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.

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Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

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To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.

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¡A fatiga de ser amado, de ser amado de verdad! ¡la fatiga de ser objeto del fardo de las emociones ajenas! Convertir a quien quisiera verse libre, siempre libre, en el chico de los recados de la responsabilidad de corresponder, de la decencia de n...

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Author Bio

  • NameFernando Pessoa
  • DescriptionPortuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
  • AliasesFernando António Nogueira Pessoa
  • BornJune 13, 1888
  • DiedNovember 30, 1935
  • CountryPortugal
  • ProfessionPoet; Translator; Writer; Playwright; Philosopher; Essayist
  • WorksThe Book Of Disquiet