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Fernando Pessoa Quotes | Quotes said by Fernando Pessoa

  • Fernando Pessoa Quote #1

    ¡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 no alejarse, para que no se imagina que se es príncipe en las emociones y se reniega el máximo que puede dar un alma humana. ¡La fatiga de, en todo caso, tener forzosamente que sentir, tener forzosamente, aunque sin reciprocidad, que amar también un poco.!.

  • Fernando Pessoa Quote #2

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

  • Fernando Pessoa Quote #3

    ¡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 no alejarse, para que no se imagina que se es príncipe en las emociones y se reniega el máximo que puede dar un alma humana. ¡La fatiga de, en todo caso, tener forzosamente que sentir, tener forzosamente, aunque sin reciprocidad, que amar también un poco.!.

  • Fernando Pessoa Quote #4

    ¿Qué hombre ha puesto sobre tus senos una mano que fuera la mía? ¿Qué beso te han dado que fuera como el mío? En aquellas tardes cálidas, cuando soñabas tanto, que soñabas que soñabas, ¿acaso no viste pasar, en lo más profundo de tus sueños, una figura velada y rápida, la que te daría toda la felicidad, la que te besaría indefinidamente? Era yo.

    Soy yo. Soy aquél al que siempre has buscado y nunca podrás encontrar. Tal vez, en el fondo inmenso del abismo, el propio Dios me busque para que yo lo complete, pero la maldición del Dios Más Viejo (el Saturno de Jehová) pende sobre él y sobre mí, nos separa, cuando nos debería unir para que la vida y lo que deseamos de ella fueran una sola cosa.

  • Fernando Pessoa Quote #5

    12.
    Se escrevo o que sinto é porque assim diminuo a febre de sentir. O que confesso não tem importância,
    pois nada tem importância


    Por: Bernado Soares
    In: Livro do Desassossego

  • Fernando Pessoa Quote #6

    A being who, as I grew older, lost imagination, emotion, a type of intelligence, a way of feeling things - all that which, while it made me sorry, did not horrify me. But what am I experiencing when I read myself as if I were someone else? On which bank am I standing if I see myself in the depths?

  • Fernando Pessoa Quote #7

    A boat would seem to be an object whose one purpose is to travel, but its real purpose is not to travel but to reach harbour. We found ourselves on the high seas, with no idea of which port we should be aiming for.

  • Fernando Pessoa Quote #8

    A consciência da insonsciência da vida é o mais antigo imposto à inteligência.

  • Fernando Pessoa Quote #9

    A literatura, que é a arte casada com o pensamento e a realização sem a mácula da realidade, parece-me ser o fim para que deveria tender todo o esforço humano, se fosse verdadeiramente humano, e não uma superfluidade do animal. Creio que dizer uma coisa é conservar-lhe a virtude e tirar-lhe o terror. Os campos são mais verdes no dizer-se do que no seu verdor. As flores, se forem descritas com frases que as definam no ar da imaginação, terão cores de uma permanência que a vida celular não permite.

  • Fernando Pessoa Quote #10

    A tree's shade is worth more than the knowledge of truth, my sons, for a tree's shade is true while it lasts, and the knowledge of truth is false in its very truth. The leaves' greenness is worth more, for a right understanding, than a great thought, for the leaves, greenness is something you can show others, but you can never show them a great thought. We are born without knowing how to talk and we die without having known how to express ourselves. Our life runs its course between the silence of one who cannot speak and the silence of one who wasn't understood, and around it hovers — like a bee where there are no flowers — a useless, inscrutable destiny.

  • Fernando Pessoa Quote #11

    Action disconcerts us, partly because of our physical incompetence, but mainly because it offends our moral sensibility. We consider it immoral to act. It seems to us that every thought is debased when expressed in words, which transform the thought into the property of others, making it understandable to anyone who can understand it.

  • Fernando Pessoa Quote #12

    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!...

  • Fernando Pessoa Quote #13

    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.

  • Fernando Pessoa Quote #14

    Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!

  • Fernando Pessoa Quote #15

    Ah, the freshness in the face of leaving a task undone!
    To be remiss is to be positively out in the country!
    What a refuge it is to be completely unreliable!
    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 into the water of my imagination.
    It’s too late to be at either of the two meetings where I should have been at the same time,
    Deliberately at the same time...
    No matter, I’ll stay here dreaming verses and smiling in italics.
    This spectator aspect of life is so amusing!
    I can’t even light the next cigarette... If it’s an action,
    It can wait for me, along with the others, in the nonmeeting called life.

  • Fernando Pessoa Quote #16

    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 myself in watching.
    I never tried to be anything other than a dreamer. 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 be full of poetry. The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness.

  • Fernando Pessoa Quote #17

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

  • Fernando Pessoa Quote #18

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

  • Fernando Pessoa Quote #19

    And leaning on the windowsill to enjoy the day, gazing at the variegated mass of the whole city, just one thought fills my soul: that I profoundly wish to die, to cease, to see no more light shining on this city or any city, to think no more, to feel no more, to leave behind the march of time and the sun like a piece of wrapping paper, to remove like a heavy suit – next to the big bed – the involuntary effort of being.

  • Fernando Pessoa Quote #20

    And with a relentlessness that comes from the world's depths, with a persistence that strikes the keys metaphysically, the scales of a piano student keep playing over and over, up and down the physical backbone of my memory. It's the old streets with other people, the same streets that today are different; it's dead people speaking to me through the transparency of their absence; it's remorse for what I did or didn't do; it's the rippling of streams in the night, noises from below in the quiet building.

    I feel like screaming inside my head. I want to stop, to break, to smash this impossible phonograph record that keeps playing inside me, where it doesn't belong, an intangible torturer. I want my soul, a vehicle taken over by others, to let me off and go on without me. I'm going crazy from having to hear. And in the end it is I – in my odiously impressionable brain, in my thin skin, in my hypersensitive nerves – who am the keys played in scales, O horrible and personal piano of our memory.

  • Fernando Pessoa Quote #21

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    “I see life as a roadside inn where I have to stay until the coach from the abyss pulls up. I don’t know where it will take me, because I don’t know anything. I could see this inn as a prison, for I’m compelled to wait in it; I could see it as a social centre, for it’s here that I meet others. But I’m neither impatient nor common. I leave who will to stay shut up in their rooms, sprawled out on beds where they sleeplessly wait, and I leave who will to chat in the parlours, from where their songs and voices conveniently drift out here to me. I’m sitting at the door, feasting my eyes and ears on the colours and sounds of the landscape, and I softly sing – for myself alone – wispy songs I compose while waiting.

  • Fernando Pessoa Quote #22

    At the end of this day there remains what remained yesterday and what will remain tomorrow: the insatiable, unquantifiable longing to be both the same and other.

  • Fernando Pessoa Quote #23

    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.

  • Fernando Pessoa Quote #24

    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?

  • Fernando Pessoa Quote #25

    By day I am nothing, by night I am I.

  • Fernando Pessoa Quote #26

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

  • Fernando Pessoa Quote #27

    Civilisation consists in giving something a name that doesn't belong to it and then dreaming over the result. And the false name joined to the true dream does create a new reality. The object does change into something else, because we make it change. We manufacture realities.

  • Fernando Pessoa Quote #28

    Convicções profundas só as têm as criaturas superficiais. Os que não reparam para as coisas quase que as veem apenas para não esbarrar com elas, esses são sempre da mesma opinião, são os íntegros e os coerentes. A política e a religião gastam dessa lenha, e é por isso que ardem tão mal entre a Verdade e a Vida.

  • Fernando Pessoa Quote #29

    De resto, com que posso contar comigo? Uma acuidade horrível das sensações, e a compreensão profunda de estar sentindo... Uma inteligência aguda para me destruir, e um poder de sonho sôfrego de me entreter... Uma vontade morta e uma reflexão que a embala, como a’ um filho vivo... Sim, croché...

  • Fernando Pessoa Quote #30

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

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