Fernando Pessoa Quotes about Past

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I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.

I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.

Fernando Pessoa

Past, Live In The Present, Knows

"The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 118, 1982.

My past is everything I failed to be.

Fernando Pessoa

Failure, Past, My Past

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”