Fernando Pessoa Life Quotations

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

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.

Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.

I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.

Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.

We, all who live, have A life that is lived And another life that is thought, And the only life we have It's the one that is divided In right or wrong.

Life is whatever we conceive it to be.

Life is a thread that someone entangled.

Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a sickness bred of the mystery of life. If one of the faces I pass daily on the streets disappears, I feel sad; yet they meant nothing to me, other than being a symbol of all life.

Life is good, but Wine is better.

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