“My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.” 

― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!” 

― Fernando Pessoa

“In order to understand, I destroyed myself.” 

― Fernando Pessoa

“I am nothing.

I'll never be anything.

I couldn't want to be something.

Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.” 

― Fernando Pessoa

“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.” 

― Fernando Pessoa

“We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.” 

― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.” 

― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet