I asked for so little from life and life denied me even that. - Fernando Pessoa

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I asked for so little from life and life denied me even that.

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About Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa (13 June 1888 – 30 November 1935) was a Portuguese poet and writer, most of whose work was published posthumously. He wrote frequently under heteronyms, alter egos with developed personalities, biographies, jobs, habits, attitudes, addresses, etc., who sometimes quoted and interacted with each other and other people.

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Native Name: Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa
Alternative Names: Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa Alberto Caeiro Ricardo Reis Bernardo Soares
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The endless procession of people and things that forms the world is for me an interminable gallery of pictures whose content bores me. It doesn't interest me because the soul is a monotonous thing and is always the same in everyone; it differs only in its personal manifestations and the best part of it is that which overflows into dreams, into mannerisms and gestures, and thus becomes part of the image that so captures my interest [...] This is how I experience the animate exteriors of things and beings, in pure vision, indifferent as a god from another world to their content, to their spirit. I only go deep into the surface of other people, if I want profundity I look for it in myself and in my concept of things.

فجأة، كما لو أن قدرا مداويا شفانى من عمى مزمن بطريقة مباغتة، أرفع الرأس، عن حياتى الغفل، نحو المعرفة الواضحة بكيفية وجودى، فأرى أن كل ما قمت به، كل ما فكرت به، كل ما كنته، هو خداع وجنون. أتعجب مما توصلت إلى عدم الانتباه إليه. أستغرب ما كنته، وأرى أننى فى نهاية المطاف، لست أنا.

أنظر، كما لو فى تمدد للشّمس مكسِّر للغيوم، إلى حياتى الماضية؛ وألاحظ، بذهول ميتافيزيقى، كيف أن كل حركاتى، الأكثر يقينية، أفكارى الأشد وضوحا، وغاياتى الأكثر منطقية، لم تكن، فى النهاية، غير سُكْر متصل منذ الولادة، غير جنون طبيعى، وتنكر بلا حدود...لم أكن الممثل بل حركاته و حسب

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