Fernando Pessoa Quotes

All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.

Fernando Pessoa

At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.

Fernando Pessoa

Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

Fernando Pessoa

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.

Fernando Pessoa

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

Fernando Pessoa

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

Fernando Pessoa

To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.

Fernando Pessoa

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

Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.

Fernando Pessoa