Quote

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

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
Absolutely
Sensations
Quite
Lightning
Today
Flash
Experienced
Intimate
Absurd
Suddenly
Valid
Realized
Sensation

More quotes by Fernando Pessoa

Image
What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
Humanitarianism is rude.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
If we knew the truth, we'd see it all else is system and outskirts.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.
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
No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
Let's buy books so as not to read them let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there let's take long walks because we're sick of walking and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
I am the suburb of a non-existent town, the prolix commentary on a book never written. I am nobody, nobody. I am a character in a novel which remains to be written, and I float, aerial, scattered without ever having been, among the dreams of a creature who did not know how to finish me off.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
Should you ask me if I'm happy, I'll answer that I'm not.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own
Fernando Pessoa
Image
We worship perfection because we can't have it if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
Fraternity has subtleties.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
There is a time when it is necessary to abandon the used clothes, which already have the shape of our body and to forget our paths, which takes us always to the same places. This is the time to cross the river: and if we don't dare to do it, we will have stayed, forever beneath ourselves
Fernando Pessoa
Image
I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
Everything is theater.
Fernando Pessoa