Fernando Pessoa Quotes

I came alone and I go as a stranger. I do not know who I am, nor what I have been doing.

I'm always aware that there are, broadly speaking, two different ways to act: there is acting, and then there's being, and I'm always more interested in that.

It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period

Look long enough, out or in, and you’ll be glad you are who you are.

Do I walk? Have I feet still? I raise my eyes, I let them move round, and turn myself with them, one circle, one circle, and I stand in the midst. All is as usual. Only the Militiaman Stanislaus Katczinsky has died. Then I know nothing more.

You are what you are" "Which is what? I wondered

Don't you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist.

I can't even make a leap of faith to believe in my own existence.

Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt.'

To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.

A long time ago, Descartes sad, “I think, therefore I am.” But if you are not thinking, what?

I think and that is all that I am.

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

What am I? Do I know? I am a man: quite simply, a 'breather.'

Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless place if you don't really understand: 'who am I? Why am I here? What am I doing?' To feel fulfilment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, that is the most important thing.

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

One of my problems is to find the self.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and who are we, the stories we tell ourselves are the stories that define the potentialities of our existence. We are the stories we tell ourselves.

Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me.

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

At times I think and at times I am.