Top 27 Fernando Pessoa The Book Of Disquiet Quotes
#1. No one is going to beat the crap out of me more than me.
Mandy Patinkin
#2. Marcus is one of the greatest guys in the world!", Marcus Matherne
Marcus Matherne
#5. Unfortunately the trick to great execution is to say no a lot.
Sam Altman
#6. I never knew of a Morning in Africa when I woke up and was not happy.
Ernest Hemingway,
#7. We are the sum of all the moments in our lives - all that is ours is in them: we cannot escape it or conceal it.
Thomas Wolfe
#9. Margo was not a miracle.She was not an adventure.She was not a fine and precious thing.She was just a girl.
John Green
#10. In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends.
Noam Chomsky
#11. Since we can't extract beauty from life, let's at least try to extract beauty from not being able to extract beauty from life.
Fernando Pessoa
#12. No other writer ever achieved such a direct transference of self to paper. The Book of Disquiet is the world's strangest photograph, made out of words, the only material capable of capturing the recesses of the soul it exposes. Richard Zenith, 2001 NOTES
Fernando Pessoa
#13. No, we don't feel anything. We consciously pass through the door we have to enter, and the fact we have to enter it is enough to put us to sleep.
Fernando Pessoa
#14. To understand, I destroyed myself. To understand is to forget about loving. I know nothing more simultaneously false and telling than the statement by Leonardo da Vinci that we cannot love or hate something until we've understood it.
Fernando Pessoa
#15. I'll disappear in the fog as a foreigner to all life, as a human island detached from the dream of the sea, as a uselessly existing ship that floats on the surface of everything.
Fernando Pessoa
#16. Yes, my particular virtue of being very often objective, and thus sidetracked from thinking about myself, suffers lapses of affirmation, as do all virtues and even all vices.
Fernando Pessoa
#17. If you deny the existence of your fault or error, it will strengthen its hold over you. If you recognize it, your awareness will destroy it. He who rejects this will never know the entrance to the Temple.
R. A. Schwaller De Lubicz
#20. If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
Al Bernstein
#21. The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of our consciousness of the world, a shortness of breath in our soul.
Fernando Pessoa
#22. People are beginning to understand there is nothing in the world so remote that it can't impact you as a person. It's not just diseases. Economists are now beginning to say if we are going to have good markets in Africa, we're going to have to have healthy people in Africa.
William Foege
#23. I never tried to be anything other than a dreamer. I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to be full of poetry.
Fernando Pessoa
#24. What has happened to us has happened to everyone or only us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood. From, The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa
#25. My dreams are a stupid shelter, like an umbrella against lightning.
Fernando Pessoa
#26. By changing our inner state of mind, we can change any suffering or hardship into a source of joy, regarding it as a means for forging and developing our lives. To turn even sorrow into a source of creativity - this is the way of life of a Buddhist
Daisaku Ikeda
#27. It's your road & yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you
Rumi
