Quote

I seek and don’t find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots.

Fernando Pessoa

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Fernando Pessoa
Age: 47 †
Born: 1888
Born: June 13
Died: 1935
Died: November 30
Author
Essayist
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Translator
Writer
Lisboa
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa
Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa
Alberto Caeiro
Ricardo Reis
Bernardo Soares
Pessoa
Chrysanthemums
Neatly
Lined
Belong
Seek
Hours
Find

More quotes by Fernando Pessoa

Image
In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the belief in a particular God.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
It's been a long time since I've been me.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
God wills, man dreams, the work is born.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
My boredom with everything has numbed me.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely no one.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
Myth is the nothing that is all.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
I Know, I Alone I know, I alone How much it hurts, this heart With no faith nor law Nor melody nor thought. Only I, only I And none of this can I say Because feeling is like the sky - Seen, nothing in it to see.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
Life is whatever we conceive it to be.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
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
Image
If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
To think is to destroy.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
Fernando Pessoa