Antonio Porchia Quotes - Page 3

When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.

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

Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.

My bits of time play with eternity.

You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.

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

He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.

We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.

Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.

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

When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.

Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him.

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

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

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

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

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