Antonio Porchia Quotes - Page 5

The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen.

If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could!

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.

No one is a light unto himself, not even the sun.

All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out.

Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God.

My final belief is suffering. And I begin to believe that I do not suffer.

I began my comedy as its only actor and I come to the end as its only spectator.

More grievous than tears is the sight of them.

When I am asleep I dream what I dream when I am awake. It's a continuous dream.

My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.

When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.

Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.

Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.

Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.

Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.

The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.

Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.