Fernando Pessoa Quotes

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality

No matter where you go, you always see yourself in the rearview mirror.

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.

I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

It's odd seeing yourself on screen at all.

Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes. Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself. The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through.

To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self.

She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.

Perhaps a child, like a cat, is so much inside of himself that he does not see himself in the mirror.

I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

If I can avoid looking at myself, I will. I don't care to examine myself or see much of what I do. I never care how I look.

I didn't want to have to deal with having any moniker or separation between the self that I see and know myself as.

I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned.

I could easily not be the person that people know.

You see a person when you look in the mirror that no one sees but you. Other people see a person when they look at you, but you're not that person, either.

I always have a hard time describing myself.

A [wo]man who is unconscious of [her/]himself acts in a blind, instinctive way and is in addition fooled by all the illusions that arise when he sees everything that he is not conscious of in himself coming to meet him from outside as projections upon his neighbour.

I can see myself before myself - a being through dark scenery.