Fernando Pessoa: Quotes about life

Fernando Pessoa was Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on life.
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“It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Foi num mar interior que o rio da minha vida findou.

“Thing thrown to a corner, rag fallen on the road, my ignoble being feigns itself in front of life.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid., p. 64
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Coisa arrojada a um canto, trapo caído na estrada, meu ser ignóbil ante a vida finge-se.

“Pity him who lives at home
Happy with his life,
Without a dream, a flexing of wings,
To make him relinquish
Even the warmest ember of his hearth!

Pity him who is happy!
He lives because life lasts.
Nothing within him whispers
More than the primeval law:
That life leads to the grave.”

Fernando Pessoa book Mensagem

&lt;p&gt;Original: Triste de quem vive em casa,<br>Contente com o seu lar,<br>Sem que um sonho, no erguer de asa,<br>Faça até mais rubra a brasa<br>Da lareira a abandonar!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Triste de quem é feliz!<br>Vive porque a vida dura.<br>Nada na alma lhe diz<br>Mais que a lição da raiz-<br>Ter por vida a sepultura.&lt;/p&gt; <br class="br">Poem &quot;O Quinto Império&quot; http://www.inverso.pt/Mensagem/Encoberto/QuintoImperio.htm, lines 1–10 <br class="br">Message

“Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Education Of the Stoic

Ibid., p. 18.
The Education of the Stoic

“As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid., p. 68
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Assim como lavamos o corpo devíamos lavar o destino, mudar de vida como mudamos de roupa.

“The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid., p. 110
The Book of Disquiet
Original: A superioridade do sonhador consiste em que sonhar é muito mais prático que viver, e em que o sonhador extrai da vida um prazer muito mais vasto e muito mais variado do que o homem de acção. Em melhores e mais directas palavras, o sonhador é que é o homem de acção.

“I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Achego-me à minha secretária como a um baluarte contra a vida.