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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¡LA 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 ...

Fernando Pessoa

Te quiero solo como un sueño.

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Nunca amamos a alguien. Amamos, tan sólo, la idea que nos hacemos de alguien. Es a un concepto nuestro –en suma, es a nosotros mismo– a quien amamos.

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Amar es cansarse de estar solo: es, por lo tanto, una cobardía y una traición a nosotros mismos.

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Del amor sólo he exigido que nunca dejase de ser un sueño lejano.

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Nunca he encarado el suicidio como una solución, porque odio la vida por amor a ella.

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

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Les dieux sont ceux qui ne doutent jamais.

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É preciso que todos os que lidam comigo se convençam de que sou assim, e que exigir-me os sentimentos, aliás muito dignos, de um homem vulgar e banal, é como exigir-me que tenha olhos azuis e cabelo louro.

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Children are particularly literary, for they say what they feel not what someone has taught them to feel.

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All I’ve ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my existence. The only thing I’ve ever really cared about is my inner life. My greatest griefs faded to nothing the moment I opened the window onto my inner self and lost m...

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I hesitate in everything, often without knowing why. How often I've sought – as my own version of the straight line, seeing it in my mind as the ideal straight line – the longest distance between two points. I've never had a knack for the active ...

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But if the Dream Kings were mine, what would I have to dream about? If I possessed the impossible landscapes, what would remain of the impossible?

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What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys me, and an unusual capacity for dreaming to keep me entertained. A dead will and a reflection that cradles ...

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Sometimes I muse about how wonderful it would be if I could string all my dreams together into one continuous life, a life consisting of entire days full of imaginary companions and created people.

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In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest.

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We, all who live, have A life that is lived And another life that is thought, And the only life we have It's the one that is divided In right or wrong.

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I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

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I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me. I missed them all, through deliberate negligence, Having waited for the urge to go, which I knew wouldn’t come. I’m free, and against organized, clothed society. I’m naked and plunge...

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The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being ...

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The human soul is an abyss

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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