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The Keeper of Sheep QUOTES

The Keeper of Sheep QUOTES

1 " I don’t have a philosophy: I have senses...
If I talk about Nature, it’s not because I know what it is,
But because I love it, and that’s why I love it,
Because when you love you never know what you love,
Or why you love, or what love is.

Loving is eternal innocence,
And the only innocence is not thinking. "

― Fernando Pessoa , The Keeper of Sheep

2 " It’s stranger than every strangeness
And the dreams of all the poets
And the thoughts of all the philosophers,
That things are really what they seem to be
And there’s nothing to understand. "

― Fernando Pessoa , The Keeper of Sheep

3 " The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.
But what does someone who hates and loves want with a sunset? "

― Fernando Pessoa , The Keeper of Sheep

4 " I don’t always feel what I know I should feel.
My thought crosses the river I swim very slowly
Because the suit men made it wear weighs it down. "

― Fernando Pessoa , The Keeper of Sheep

5 " A stagecoach passed by on the road and went on;
And the road didn’t become more beautiful or even more ugly.
That’s human action on the outside world.
We take nothing away and we put nothing back, we pass by and we forget;
And the sun is always punctual every day.

(5/7/14) "

― Fernando Pessoa , The Keeper of Sheep

6 " Also at times, on the surface of streams,
Water?bubbles form
And grow and burst
And have no meaning at all
Except that they’re water?bubbles
Growing and bursting. "

― Fernando Pessoa , The Keeper of Sheep

7 " I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys, plains,
That there are trees, flowers, weeds,
That there are rivers and stones,
But there is not a whole these belong to,
That a real and true wholeness
Is a sickness of our ideas. "

― Fernando Pessoa , The Keeper of Sheep

8 " I pass and I stay, like the Universe. "

― Fernando Pessoa , The Keeper of Sheep

9 " A row of trees far away, there on the hillside.
But what is it, a row of trees? It’s just trees.
Row and the plural trees aren’t things, they’re names. "

― Fernando Pessoa , The Keeper of Sheep

10 " All the evil in the world comes from us bothering with each other,
Wanting to do good, wanting to do evil.
Our soul and the sky and the earth are enough for us.
To want more is to lose this, and be unhappy. "

― Fernando Pessoa , The Keeper of Sheep

11 " Even so, I’m somebody.
I’m the Discoverer of Nature.
I’m the Argonaut of true sensations.
I bring a new Universe to the Universe
Because I bring the Universe to itself. "

― Fernando Pessoa , The Keeper of Sheep

12 " If I could take a bite of the whole world
And feel it on my palate
I’d be more happy for a minute or so...
But I don’t always want to be happy.
Sometimes you have to be
Unhappy to be natural...

Not every day is sunny.
When there’s been no rain for a while, you pray for it to come.
So I take unhappiness with happiness
Naturally, like someone who doesn’t find it strange
That there are mountains and plains
And that there are cliffs and grass...

What you need is to be natural and calm
In happiness and in unhappiness,
To feel like someone seeing,
To think like someone walking,
And when it’s time to die, remember the day dies,
And the sunset is beautiful, and the endless night is beautiful...
That’s how it is and that’s how it should be... "

― Fernando Pessoa , The Keeper of Sheep

13 " All beings exist and nothing else
And that’s why they’re called beings "

― Fernando Pessoa , The Keeper of Sheep

14 " There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything. "

― Fernando Pessoa , The Keeper of Sheep

15 " Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.
Things are the only hidden meaning of things. "

― Fernando Pessoa , The Keeper of Sheep

16 " What does this think about that?
Nothing thinks about anything.
Does the earth have consciousness of its stones and plants?
If it did, it would be people. . .
Why am I worrying about this?
If I think about these things,
I’ll stop seeing trees and plants
And stop seeing the Earth
For only seeing my thoughts...
I’ll get unhappy and stay in the dark.
And so, without thinking, I have the Earth and the Sky. "

― Fernando Pessoa , The Keeper of Sheep

17 " Praise be to God I’m not good,
And have the natural egotism of flowers
And rivers following their bed
Preoccupied without knowing it
Only with blooming and flowing.
This is the only mission in the World,
This—to exist clearly,
And to know how to do it without thinking about it.) "

― Fernando Pessoa , The Keeper of Sheep

18 " Pensar incomoda como andar à chuva
Quando o vento cresce e parece que chove mais. "

― Fernando Pessoa , The Keeper of Sheep

19 " If I talk about her like she’s a being
It’s because talking about her I need to use the language of men
Which gives personality to things,
And imposes a name on things. "

― Fernando Pessoa , The Keeper of Sheep

20 " The river of my village doesn’t make you think about anything.
When you’re at its bank you’re only at its bank. "

― Fernando Pessoa , The Keeper of Sheep