Quote

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

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
Thing
Ornamental
Made
Lily
Time
Lilies
Sharp
Belong
Search
Soul
Chrysanthemums
Find
Callas

More quotes by Fernando Pessoa

Image
As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
Literature exists because the world isn't enough.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
Multipliquei-me para me sentir.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice
Fernando Pessoa
Image
I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
I’m beginning to know myself. I don’t exist. I’m the space between what I’d like to be and what others made of me. Just let me be at ease and all by myself in my room.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect
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
Art lies because it's social.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a sickness bred of the mystery of life. If one of the faces I pass daily on the streets disappears, I feel sad yet they meant nothing to me, other than being a symbol of all life.
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
FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
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
I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
Fernando Pessoa
Image
My boredom with everything has numbed me.
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
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
Fernando Pessoa