Fernando Pessoa Quotes

It's about not letting the internal enemy, the real enemy, have his way because the more he does the stronger he becomes. The film's about the devastating results that can manifest from the internal enemy being unbridled and allowed to unleash chaos.

They will love me for that which destroys me.

Sometimes you have to lose everything in order to gain yourself.

Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don’t want to fight yourself anymore, so you pick someone else to fight.

The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time.

In reality of everyday occurrences I've had to submit to people in order not to lose them. It's less the submission that bothers me, I guess, than how it makes my life miserable. And what happens if I can't forgive myself for making that choice? And what if, in order to keep on living, I have to continue to accept myself? What am I supposed to do? Conclusion: It'd be best if I'm destroyed. The best thing is for me just to vanish.

There's something about being amid the chaos and the horror of a war that makes you appreciate all you don't have - and all you may lose forever.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

Wars break things; they break stories.

I became conflicted in my late teens.

Violence is man re-creating himself.

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

The War will leave none of us as it found us.

I don't feel like a 40-year-old. I feel more like four 10-year-olds, each pulling in a different direction.

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?'

There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

War! War! War! I fear it will swallow up everything good and useful.

in the clash of contending armies and amid the groans of the wounded and the dying, the interests of education are sacrificed – the pacific virtues take their flight from the earth

There are worse things than war.

War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning

It's like I had two things pulling at me: you want to be a fighter, and you have problems. So I couldn't be a fighter, and I wasn't solving any problems.

I knew that 'Next Thing' was an angry album while I was making it. But I thought that it was angry the way that you get in a fight, not angry as a huge life change.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.

What are you willing to give up, in order to become who you really need to be?