Fernando Pessoa, Poems Of Fernando Pessoa Quotes

There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness

Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!

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.

Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice

To be understood is to prostitute oneself

Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only a piece of me I see in each fatal fragment - Only a piece of you and me!...

Without madness what is manBut a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?