Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet Quotes

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

So it is with all life. A tedium that includes the expectation of nothing but more tedium; a regret, right now, for the regret I'll have tomorrow for having felt regret today.