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Fernando Pessoa quotes about life

Portuguese Author June 13, 1888 – November 30, 1935

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Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us as a dream, as something that pretended to exist while we were sleeping. And we will become subtly and profoundly indifferent towards all of life's setbacks and calamities. Those who die turned a corner, which is why we've stopped seeing them; those who suffer pass before us like a nightmare, if we feel, or like an unpleasant daydream, if we think. And even our own suffering won't be... Fernando Pessoa
I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life. Fernando Pessoa
Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves when autumn arrives, or the stretching of their many stiff fingers into the cold sky of the passing winter. Sit still with me and meditate on how useless effort is, how alien the will, and on how our very meditation is no more useful than effort, and no more our own than the will. Meditate too on how a life that wants nothing can have no weight in the flux of things, but a... Fernando Pessoa
Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I continuously feel that I was someone else, that I felt something else, that I thought something else. What I'm attending here is a show with another set. And the show I'm attending is myself. Fernando Pessoa
May I at least carry, to the boundless possibility contained in the abyss of everything, the glory of my disillusion like that of a great dream, and the splendor of not believing like a banner of defeat; a banner in feeble hands, but still and all a banner, dragged through mud and the blood of the weak but raised high for who knows what reason - whether in defiance, or as a challenge, or in mere desperation - as we vanish into quicksand. No one knows for what reason, because no one knows... Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa quote: "Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity...."
Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.] Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa quote: "There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one..."
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful. Fernando Pessoa
In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And many of the seem to me written by a stranger: I simply do not recognize myself in them. There was a person who wrote them, and it was I. I experienced them, but it was in another life, from which I just woke up, as if from someone else's dream. Fernando Pessoa
I’ve always wanted to be liked. It grieved me that I was treated with indifference. Left an orphan by Fortune, I wanted—like all orphans—to be the object of someone’s affection. This need has always been a hunger that went unsatisfied, and so thoroughly have I adapted to this inevitable hunger that I sometimes wonder if I really feel the need to eat. Whatever be the case, life pains me. Fernando Pessoa
Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't know what, having forgotten it in his dreaming as the search got under way. Fernando Pessoa
pg. 7 "Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating. Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa quote: "To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of..."
To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life. Fernando Pessoa
I walk along a street and see in the faces of the passersby not the expression they really have but the expression they would have for me if they knew about my life and how I am, if I carried, transparent in my gestures and my face, the ridiculous, timid abnormality of my soul. Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa quote: "Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."
Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa quote: "The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life."
The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life. Fernando Pessoa

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