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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Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might seem, is the one that suits temperaments like mine. The fictions of my imagination (as it later...

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I had the same sensation as when we watch someone sleep. When asleep we all become children again. Perhaps because in the state of slumber we can do no wrong and are unconscious of life, the greatest criminal and most self- absorbed egotist are holy,...

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The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

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This little boy playing next to me is an intellectual mass of cells - better yet, he's a clockwork of subatomic movements, a strange electrical conglomeration of millions of solar systems in minature. [58, Zenith trans.]

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The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.

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No-one loves another More than he loves whatever another within may have That is part of one's self

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¡Ah, no hay nostalgia más dolorosa que la de las cosas que nunca han sucedido!

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Everything is interconnected. My readings of classical authors, who never speaks of sunsets, have made many sunsets intelligible to me, in all their colors. There is a relationship between syntactical competence, by which we distinguish the values of...

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All letters of love are Ridiculous. They wouldn’t be love letters if they were not Ridiculous.

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Eu que me aguente comigo e com os comigos de mim.

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Great mysteries inhabit the threshold of my being.

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La generazione a cui appartengo ha trovato un mondo privo di certezze per chi possegga un cuore e un cervello. Il lavoro di distruzione delle generazioni precedenti aveva prodotto come risultato che il mondo nel quale nascemmo era privo per noi di si...

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The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own

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El misterio de la vida nos duele y nos aterra de muchas formas. Unas veces cae sobre nosotros como un fantasma sin forma, y el alma tiembla con el peor de los miedos, el de la encarnación disforme del no ser. Otras veces está detrás de nosotros, v...

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I know not what tomorrow will bring.

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Mejor no fluir en la vida, mejor secarse de tanto soñar.

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La vida práctica siempre me ha parecido el menos cómodo de los suicidios.

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La relación que hay entre el sueño y la vida es la misma que hay entre lo que llamamos vida y lo que llamamos muerte. Estamos durmiendo, y esta vida es un sueño, no en un sentido metafórico o poético, sino en un sentido verdadero.

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El propio vivir es morir, porque no tenemos un día más en nuestra vida en que no tengamos, por ello, un día menos.

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Bendito sea el elemento irónico de los destinos que concede a los pobres de vida el sueño como pensamiento, así como concedo a los pobres de sueño la vida como pensamiento o el pensamiento como vida.

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La vida es la duda entre una exclamación y una interrogación. En la duda hay un punto final.

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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