Fernando Pessoa's Quotes

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

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

All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.

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.

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

Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

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.

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

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