Fernando Pessoa: Frasi in inglese (pagina 3)

“Everything is worthwhile
if the soul is not small.”

“I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.”

“I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.”

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

“To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.”

“I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything.”

“We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum of mist; the false, the one we love when we live with others, the practical, the useful, the one we end up by being put in a coffin.”

“Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!”

“But I am not perfect in my way of putting things
Because I lack the divine simplicity
Of being only what I appear to be.”

“The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.”

“I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.”

“I’m losing my taste for everything, including even my taste for finding everything tasteless.”

“Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.”

“The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.”

“To be understood is to prostitute yourself.”

“I Know, I Alone

I know, I alone
How much it hurts, this heart
With no faith nor law
Nor melody nor thought.

Only I, only I
And none of this can I say
Because feeling is like the sky -
Seen, nothing in it to see.”

“There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.”

“But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?”

“Having never discovered qualities in myself that might attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.”