Fernando Pessoa Quotes


"No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it."
- Fernando Pessoa
(Related: Idea, Acceptance, Gain, Stupidity)

"Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world."
- Fernando Pessoa
(Related: World)

"To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost."
- Fernando Pessoa
(Related: Living, Today, Yesterday)

"Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates."
- Fernando Pessoa
(Related: Earth, Metaphysics)

"Could it think, the heart would stop beating."
- Fernando Pessoa
(Related: Heart)

"At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root."
- Fernando Pessoa
(Related: First)

"All is worthwhile if the soul is not small."
- Fernando Pessoa
(Related: Soul)

"To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life."
- Fernando Pessoa
(Related: Life, Acting, Concern)