Antonio Porchia Quotes
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All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out.
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You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
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I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.
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If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could!
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Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God.
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I know what I have given you, I do not know what you have received.
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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
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My bits of time play with eternity.
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When I am asleep I dream what I dream when I am awake. It's a continuous dream.
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I began my comedy as its only actor and I come to the end as its only spectator.
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I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone.
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A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
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Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.
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Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.
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When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost.
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My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.
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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.
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When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
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The confession of one man humbles all.
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If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
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No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.
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Everything had been stripped of deceptions, that time. And that time I was afraid of everything.
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Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison.
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Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him.
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Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
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We have a world for each one, but we do not have a world for all.
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Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.
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When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.
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He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.
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Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.
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