This text intends to analyze two pathways to the world and to reality, based on The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa and regardless of any conceptual or philosophical system: the negation of the action and the literature of disquiet. Both stances cause, in the Portuguese poet's thought, a deep rejection of modernity and contemporaneity as to how men have to be and act framed within a type of pragmatic and productive thought. Therefore, and in opposition to the aforementioned, Pessoa proposes the literature of disquiet as a creating and aesthetic action that allows men to be open to the world from their imagination, dreams, art, poetry, literacy, and creating action.