Fernando Pessoa Quotes about Reality

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

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”

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

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