Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa, born Fernando António Nogueira 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...
NationalityPortuguese
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth13 June 1888
CityLisbon, Portugal
CountryPortugal
Fernando Pessoa quotes about
Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.
It's been a long time since I've been me.
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.
I realize that, while often happy and often cheerful, I am always sad.
I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.
Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.
I seek and don’t find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots.
I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know who's seeking me. My boredom with everything has numbed me. I feel banished from my soul.
La literatura es la manera más agradable de ignorar la vida.
I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.
Wasting time has an esthetics to it.
There is a time when it is necessary to abandon the used clothes, which already have the shape of our body and to forget our paths, which takes us always to the same places. This is the time to cross the river: and if we don't dare to do it, we will have stayed, forever beneath ourselves
I belong to a generation - assuming that this generation includes others besides me - that lost its faith in the gods of the old religions as well as in the gods of modern nonreligions. I reject Jehova as I reject humanity.
Myth is the nothing that is all.