Antonio Porchia famous quotes

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