Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Faithful to the word given and the idea had.
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
Faithful
Word
Idea
Given
Ideas
More quotes by Fernando Pessoa
I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.
Fernando Pessoa
Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice
Fernando Pessoa
Everything is theater.
Fernando Pessoa
All beginnings are involuntary.
Fernando Pessoa
I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing.
Fernando Pessoa
It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.
Fernando Pessoa
Wasting time has an esthetics to it.
Fernando Pessoa
Strength without agility is a mere mass.
Fernando Pessoa
My boredom with everything has numbed me.
Fernando Pessoa
If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.
Fernando Pessoa
The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.
Fernando Pessoa
Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
Fernando Pessoa
My curiosity sister of larks.
Fernando Pessoa
Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.
Fernando Pessoa
My past is everything I failed to be.
Fernando Pessoa
Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.
Fernando Pessoa
Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese.
Fernando Pessoa
I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!
Fernando Pessoa
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
Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.
Fernando Pessoa
