Fernando Pessoa Quotes

The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage.

When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.

Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free. (Eugenie to her father)

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

The strong man is strongest when alone.

He is great enough that is his own master.

I've lived on my own since I was 18, and I really love living alone. That, to me, is just great.

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

In earnest, my dear brother, I am sorry for you from the bottom of my soul. Take my advice, and turn Huron; for I see plainly a vast difference between your condition and mine. I am master of my own body, I have the absolute disposal of myself, I do what I please.

Self Emancipation

I'm free to leave... go wherever I please, do whatever I want; I believe everyone should live like that. Don't be dependent on anyone else - man, woman, child, or dog.

There's a sense of sovereignty that comes from life on a mountain.

People should just let me be.

Once I turned eighteen, I could cut myself off from everyone and finally get what I wanted, which was to be on my own, once and for all. ~Ruby, pg 38

To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone.

Off fall the wife, the mother, the lover, the teacher, and the violent artist takes over. I am I alone. I belong to no one but myself. I mate with no one but the spirit. I own no land, have no kin, no friend or enemy. I have no road but this one.

How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?

We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.

I´m not a wandering slave, I am a woman of choice

Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.

The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

I want to live life on my own terms.

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

I feel like an independent man, and I am. This is the kind of feeling I always wanted. You can rarely get that... Well, I could rarely get that in the early part of my life.