English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Fernando Pessoa Quotes

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 life the wants everything can likewise have no weight in the flux of things, since it cannot obtain everything, and to obtain less than everything is not worthy of souls that seek the truth.

Fernando Pessoa

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

The world is changing and the physical barriers are down now. It's time for the emotional barriers to go down. And what better place to start than school? Laura San Giacomo
Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person. Linda Cardellini
Did the rhythm of the train on the tracks somehow unravel her and make her behave out of character? Was she altered in transit, when her feet were not upon the ground? John Irving
Alain Robert quote: "Life has to be dangerous."
Life has to be dangerous. Alain Robert
When the onward rush of a powerful spirit sweeps a weaker one to its destruction, the commonplaces of the moral judgement are better left unmade. Lytton Strachey
Anna Sui quote: "Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of..."
Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing. Anna Sui
Jonathan Franzen quote: "My first hero was Thomas Edison, whose adult life had..."
My first hero was Thomas Edison, whose adult life had consisted entirely of free time. Jonathan Franzen
One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I'm thinking about an audience, it's usually a younger version of myself. Matt Groening
Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit. Alan Greenspan
Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good..."
All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil. Robert Louis Stevenson
Fiona Apple quote: "I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they..."
I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't. Fiona Apple
Peter Tork quote: "Original Monkees' songs were produced very thinly, on purpose."
Original Monkees' songs were produced very thinly, on purpose. Peter Tork
This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work. Tavis Smiley
I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now. R. Kelly
Dan Millman quote: "everyone tells you what's good for you. they don't want you to..."
everyone tells you what's good for you. they don't want you to find your own answers. they want you to believe theirs. Dan Millman