Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary. Fernando Pessoa More Quotes by Fernando Pessoa More Quotes From Fernando Pessoa I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by. Fernando Pessoa silence journey world Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world. Fernando Pessoa enjoy wise world I am the escaped one, After I was born They locked me up inside me But I left. My soul seeks me, Through hills and valley, I hope my soul Never finds me. Fernando Pessoa hills valleys soul For I am the size of what I see / not my height's size. Fernando Pessoa size height I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up. Fernando Pessoa waking wake-up feels 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 space ease rooms My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in some spurious vegetable torpor, moss growing on the surface of life. Without a trace of bitterness I savour my absurd awareness of being nothing, a mere foretaste of death and extinction. Fernando Pessoa vegetables dream thinking La literatura es la manera más agradable de ignorar la vida. Fernando Pessoa vida To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It is exceedingly important that we not love.) Fernando Pessoa betrayal important love-is 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 moon lakes inspirational We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum of mist; the false, the one we love when we live with others, the practical, the useful, the one we end up by being put in a coffin. Fernando Pessoa childhood dream two As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes. Fernando Pessoa life-changing clothes destiny We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distant ellipses. Fernando Pessoa chaos absurd planets There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist. Fernando Pessoa passing knowing unhappy The human soul is an abyss Fernando Pessoa abyss humans soul I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else. Fernando Pessoa suffering sometimes thinking Ah, who will save me from existing? It's neither death nor life that I want. Fernando Pessoa save-me want It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've felt, very often, a vicarious happiness. I haven't existed. I've been someone else. I've lived without thinking. Fernando Pessoa slumber lasts thinking Sometimes, when I wake up at night, I feel invisible hands weaving my destiny. Fernando Pessoa invisible-hand destiny night The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free. Fernando Pessoa ends average art
