I Have More Souls Than One Quotes

“I am nothing,
Never shall be anything.
Cannot will to be anything,
This apart, I have in me, all the dreams of the world.”
― Fernando Pessoa, I Have More Souls Than One

“I see boats moving on the sea.
Their sails, like wings of what I see,
Bring me a vague inner desire to be
Who I was without knowing what it was.
So all recalls my home self, and, because
It recalls that, what I am aches in me.”
― Fernando Pessoa, I Have More Souls Than One

“I have more souls than one.
There are more 'I's than myself.
And still I exist
Indifferent to all.
I silence them: I speak.”
― Fernando Pessoa, I Have More Souls Than One

“What, without madness, is a man
More than a beast after feeding,
A corpse adjourned, the half-alive breeding?”
― Fernando Pessoa, I Have More Souls Than One

“The world is for the person who is born to conquer it. And not for the one who dreams he can conquer it, even if he be right. I have dreamed more than Napoleon performed.”
― Fernando Pessoa, I Have More Souls Than One

“I want — unknown and calm.”
― Fernando Pessoa, I Have More Souls Than One