Antonio Porchia Quotes - Page 4

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.

The dream which is not fed with dream disappears.

There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.

Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?

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

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

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.

I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.

I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.

My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.

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

Everything had been stripped of deceptions, that time. And that time I was afraid of everything.

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

Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.

He who does not know how to believe, should not know.

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.

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

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.

Beyond my body my veins are invisible.

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

You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.

When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.

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

I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.