Fernando Pessoa Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Life, Depressing, Real

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.390, Penguin UK

• I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Reality, Found, Book Of Disquiet

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.276, Penguin UK

• I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Past, Reality, Possibility

  Fernando Pessoa (1996). “The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon”

• I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Reality, Men, World

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 376, 1982.

• 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.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Successful, Reality, Pieces

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.116, Penguin UK

• If, on thinking this, I look up to see if reality can quench my thirst, I see inexpressive facades, inexpressive faces, inexpressive gestures. Stones, bodies, ideas - all dead. All movements are one great standstill. Nothing means anything to me, not because it's unfamiliar but because I don't know what it is. The world has slipped away. And in the bottom of my soul - as the only reality of this moment - there's an intense and invisible grief, a sadness like the sound of someone crying in a dark room.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Grief, Sadness, Mean

• Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream create a new reality. The object really becomes another, because we turned it into another one. We manufacture realities.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Real, Civilization

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

• The startling reality of things is my discovery every single day.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Reality, Discovery

  Fernando Pessoa, Edwin Honig, Susan M. Brown (1998). “Poems of Fernando Pessoa”, p.28, City Lights Books

• It's not demons (who at least have a human face) but Hell itself that seems to be laughing inside me, it's the croaking madness of the dead universe, the spinning cadaver of physical space, the end of all worlds blowing blackly in the wind, formless and timeless, without a God who created it, without even its own self, impossibly whirling in the absolute darkness as the one and only reality, everything.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Reality, Self, Wind

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.235, Penguin UK

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