Fernando Pessoa Quotes About Moon

Quotes about: Moon

• To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Inspirational, Moon, Lakes

• I read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so scattered. And what I read, instead of being like a nearly invisible suit that sometimes oppresses me, is the external world’s tremendous and remarkable clarity, the sun that sees everyone, the moon that splotches the still earth with shadows, the wide expanses that end in the sea, the blackly solid trees whose tops greenly wave, the steady peace of ponds on farms, the terraced slopes with their paths overgrown by grape-vines.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Moon, Objectivity, Sea

• What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Moon, Errors, Perfect

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p.77, 1982.

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