45 Book Of Disquiet Quotes

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The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people! — Fernando Pessoa

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are. — Fernando Pessoa

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony. — Fernando Pessoa

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love. — Fernando Pessoa

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. — Fernando Pessoa

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world. — Fernando Pessoa

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided. — Fernando Pessoa

I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything. — Fernando Pessoa

I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me. — Fernando Pessoa

I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect — Fernando Pessoa

We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect. — Fernando Pessoa

Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions – the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue of having to have them in order to lose them, the sadness of having had them, the intellectual shame of having had them knowing that they would have to end this way. — Fernando Pessoa

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful. — Fernando Pessoa

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. — Fernando Pessoa

Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I continuously feel that I was someone else, that I felt something else, that I thought something else. What I'm attending here is a show with another set. And the show I'm attending is myself. — Fernando Pessoa

I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist. — Fernando Pessoa

We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky. — Fernando Pessoa

I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up. — Fernando Pessoa

I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else. — Fernando Pessoa

I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am. — Fernando Pessoa

If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant. — Fernando Pessoa

My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while. — Fernando Pessoa

To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet. — Fernando Pessoa

The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart. — Fernando Pessoa

I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything. — Fernando Pessoa

I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life. — 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

And, like the great damned souls, I shall always feel that thinking is worth more than living. — Fernando Pessoa

Friends: not one. Just a few acquaintances who imagine they feel something for me and who might be sorry if a train ran over me and the funeral was on a rainy day. — Fernando Pessoa

There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. — Fernando Pessoa

Art consists in making others feel what we feel. — Fernando Pessoa

I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it's a disquieting experience for a child. And what I would do was quickly unpack my books and go back to a book I knew well and make sure the same text and the same illustrations were there. — Alberto Manguel

And I have the others in me. Even when I’m far away from them, I am forced to live with them. Even when I’m all alone, crowds surround me. I have no place to flee to, unless I were to flee from myself. — Fernando Pessoa

Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one. — Fernando Pessoa

To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think. — Fernando Pessoa

Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me! — Fernando Pessoa

Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial. — Fernando Pessoa

I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost. — Fernando Pessoa

But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living? — Fernando Pessoa

The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life. — Fernando Pessoa

Should I be what I think? But I think about being so many things! — Fernando Pessoa

If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine. — Fernando Pessoa

Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness and the scientific method, on the other hand, create a culture of testing and inquiry that can't help but push you forward. — Seth Godin

Tomorrow I too – this feeling and thinking soul, the universe I am to myself – yes, tomorrow I too will be someone who no longer walks these streets, someone others will evoke with a vague: 'I wonder what's become of him?” And everything I do, everything I feel, everything I experience, will be just one less passer-by on the daily streets of some city or other. — Fernando Pessoa

What has happened to us has happened to everyone or only to us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood. — Fernando Pessoa

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