Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
Fernando Pessoa
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Process
Thought
Think
Thinking
Decomposing
Indicates
Destroy
More quotes by Fernando Pessoa
The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.
Fernando Pessoa
I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.
Fernando Pessoa
To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.
Fernando Pessoa
If we knew the truth, we'd see it all else is system and outskirts.
Fernando Pessoa
Wasting time has an esthetics to it.
Fernando Pessoa
I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body.
Fernando Pessoa
When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
Fernando Pessoa
Everything is absurd.
Fernando Pessoa
All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me.It's all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as a whole. It'sjust unconsciousness, curses of protest when chance hurlsstones, echoes of unknown voices - a collectivemishmash of life.
Fernando Pessoa
I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything.
Fernando Pessoa
To think is to destroy.
Fernando Pessoa
Better to dream than to be.
Fernando Pessoa
I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.
Fernando Pessoa
To be great, be whole Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.
Fernando Pessoa
It's been a long time since I've been me.
Fernando Pessoa
...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad.
Fernando Pessoa
To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
Fernando Pessoa
I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.
Fernando Pessoa
Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
Fernando Pessoa
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
