Quote

I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.

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
Bulwark
Desk
Desks
Closer
Come
Life

More quotes by Fernando Pessoa

Image
The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
After the rains departed the skies and settled on earth - clear skies moist brilliant earth - greater clarity returned to life alone with the blue above and made the world below rejoice with the freshness of the recent rain. It left heaven in our souls and a freshness in our hearts.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract the gist of what must have been in the text, but there's always a doubt, and the possible meanings are many.
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
And I have the others in me. Even when I’m far away from them, I am forced to live with them. Even when I’m all alone, crowds surround me. I have no place to flee to, unless I were to flee from myself.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.
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
Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen to each other and hear only a voice inside out self. The words of others are mistakes of our hearing, shipwrecks of our understanding. How confidently we believe OUR meanings of other people's words.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
I never had anyone I could call “Master”. No Christ died for me. No Buddha showed me the right path. In the depths of my dreams no Apollo or Athena appeared to me to enlighten my soul
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 don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
In the very corner of my soul there is an altar to a different god.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
Myth is the nothing that is all.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
My past is everything I failed to be.
Fernando Pessoa