Fernando Pessoa Quotes

It feels like everything's been decided in advance that I'm following a path somebody else has already mapped out for me. It doesn't matter how much I think things over, how much effort I put into it. In fact, the harder I try, the more I lose my sense of who I am. It's like my identity's an orbit that I've strayed far away from, and that really hurts. But more than that, it scares me. Just thinking about it makes me flinch.

I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or why it matters. It's our existential crisis.

I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.

I was actually looking for answers where I kept asking myself - what am I doing?

I've always been afraid of who I am and not knowing what I can do.

I may be the wrong person for my life.

Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours.

In fact, I don't even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.

I don't know who I am. Or maybe I do know who I am and I just don't want to be her anymore.

Standing alone,eager to just believe,it's good enough to be what you really are,but in your heart,uncertainty forever lies,and you'll always be,somewhere on the outside.

Suddenly, I don't want to be this person anymore. I don't want to pretend I'm fooling the world when I'm not. I want someone else to have a plan for me, because I'm not doing a very good job myself.

When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don't know who you are. Your very self-consciousness indicates that you have not come home yet.

When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was reduced to despair; but when he left off questioning himself about it, it seemed as though he knew both what he was and what he was living for, acting and living resolutely and without hesitation.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

Earlier in my career, I was really tight, really together, and knew who I was and I was confident. I kind of feel in between now.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel sort of content and get a good sense of who I am because if I know one thing, that's not me. I don't mind not necessarily being happy about it. And that's fine.

Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.

My sense of myself is that I was a rather unformed kind of person trying to make myself up out of bits of spit and string.

I don't know what I am. And it's not important.

Without a musket to raise, a barricade to storm, a flag to wave, the question hit me in the face like the cold air: 'Who am I?'