Antonio Porchia Quotes

They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you.

The confession of one man humbles all.

He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.

When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost.

A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.

Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.

The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

My heaviness comes from the heights.

You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.

We have a world for each one, but we do not have a world for all.

Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.

If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.

I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.

When I believe in nothing, I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing.

The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen.

Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.

All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out.

More grievous than tears is the sight of them.

My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.

Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.

Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.

I will help you approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.

I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.

Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.

Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison.

And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.

When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.

Everything is a little bit of darkness, even the light.

I began my comedy as its only actor and I come to the end as its only spectator.

Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.

Some things become such a part of us that we forget them.

Injury, when it is slight, upsets me; when it is strong it calms me.

No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.

Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.

The dream which is not fed with dream disappears.

Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.

When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.

What do others think they see?

The less you think you are, the more you bear. And if you think you are nothing, you bear everything.

When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.

My bits of time play with eternity.

It's been a long time since I asked anything of heaven, and my arms still haven't come down.

If a fanatic is willing to give his life for a cause, he's probably willing to give yours as well I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received

He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong.

A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.