Fernando Pessoa Quotes

To be great, be whole; don't exaggerate
Or leave out any part of you,
Be complete in each thing. Put all you are
Into the least of your acts.
So too in each lake, with its lofty life,
The whole moon shines.

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.

Original: Não há felicidade senão com conhecimento. Mas o conhecimento da felicidade é infeliz; porque conhecer-se feliz é conhecer-se passando pela felicidade, e tendo, logo já, que deixá-la atrás. Saber é matar, na felicidade como em tudo. Não saber, porém, é não existir.

I have cultivated several personalities within myself. I constantly cultivate personalities. Each of my dreams, immediately after I dream it, is incarnated into another person, who then goes on to dream it, and I stop.

To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within myself I do not exist except in an external fashion. I am the living setting in which several actors make entrances, putting on several different plays.

Pensar uma flor é vê-la e cheirá-la
E comer um fruto é saber-lhe o sentido.

…what I am aches in me.

There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.

Triste de quem é feliz !
Vive porque a vida dura.
Nada na alma lhe diz
Mais que a lição da raiz
Ter por vida a sepultura.

هكذا أكتب، بشكل جيد أو رديء،
مصيباً فيما يسعى إليه قولي
أو مخطئاً، أتعثر هنا، أنهض هناك،
مواصلاً طريقي، طريق أعمى عنيد.

I'm beginning to know myself. I don't exist.
I'm the gap between what I'd like to be and what others have made me.

A criança que fui chora na estrada. Deixei-a ali quando vim ser quem sou. Mas hoje, vendo que o que sou é nada, Quero ir buscar quem fui onde ficou.

إنتظرتك ساعتين. / سأنتظرك سنتين. / هل أنتظر بعد؟ لا تجيئين. / هل لأن النهار لا يزال مشرقاً؟

الحزين لا ينام يسهر ليجد الفرح.

How confidently we believe in our interpretation of other people's words.

Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all aims, objectives and intentions.