Antonio Porchia famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.
-- Antonio Porchia
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Love #Inspirational #Funny
Night is a world lit by itself.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Night #World #Lit
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Creativity #Nonconformity
When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Kindness #Suffering #Littles
You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Light #Giving #Sun
The shadows: some hide, others reveal.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Shadow
When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Philosophy #Philosophical #Break
We become aware of the void as we fill it.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Void #Emptiness
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Broken Heart #Wise #Appreciation
When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Order #Solitude #Needs
Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Life #Distance #Lines
Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Philosophy #Philosophical #Use
I know what I have given you... I do not know what you have received.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Giving #Given #Trade
What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Cost #Pay #Too Much
My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Father #Childhood #Half
A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Silence #Noise
The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Time #Flower #Hands
If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Eye #Positivity #Thinking
Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Men #Grieving #Doe
Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Veins #Body #Invisible
A large heart can be filled with very little.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Heart #Charity #Littles
The less you think you are, the more you bear. And if you think you are nothing, you bear everything.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Thinking #Bears
I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Love #I Love You #Love You
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.
-- Antonio Porchia
A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Stay Strong #Doors #Hundred
I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Sky #Made
Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Inspirational #Funny #Life
Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Eye #Sun #Smallest
When I believe in nothing I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Believe #Want #Belief
Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Believe #Littles #Belief
Yes I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Life #Believe #Trying
He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Desire #Action #Made
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Flower #Sunshine #Tomorrow
We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Life #Tears #Use
What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Doe #Lasts #Language
When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Time #Firsts #First Time
Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Suicide #Truth #Few Friends

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