Fernando Pessoa

"I love without knowing what I love, I know not what I feel."

"Longing is the agony of the near and the ecstasy of the far."

"The worst prison is to be prisoner of yourself and your own thoughts."

"We are all sleeping the sleep of routine while the world changes around us."

"To be an artist is to bleed onto the page what most keep locked away."

"Sincerity is the currency of souls; without it, all is bankruptcy."

"I have dreamed more than any dreamer, yet lived less than any liver."

"The greatest wisdom is knowing that wisdom itself is uncertainty."

"Time devours us not when we are living, but when we cease to feel."

"Beauty is the truth that needs no explanation, only contemplation."

"In every person dwells a multitude waiting to be discovered."

"The eyes see what the heart wishes to understand."

"Death is merely the period at the end of life's sentence."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but poetry in the face of terror."

"I am the space between thoughts, the silence between words."

"Success is a borrowed word; authenticity is the only real achievement."

"Every morning I die and am reborn into a stranger's body."

"The imagination is the only empire that never falls."

"Patience is the art of wanting something while pretending not to want it."

"To understand love, one must first understand their own profound loneliness."

"The poet sees in the mundane the extraordinary hiding in plain sight."

"Gratitude is the echo of grace in a grateful heart."

"We are all foreigners in our own existence."

"Literature is the mirror in which we see ourselves as we truly are."

"The greatest journey is the one inward, to meet oneself."

"Happiness is a glimpse of something we'll never fully possess."

"I write to discover what I think, not to think what I've written."

"The truth is a living thing, never static, always becoming."

"Kindness is the whisper of souls recognizing themselves in others."

"Power is the ability to remain unmoved by the storms around you."