Antonio Porchia Quotes

#1. Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise. - Antonio Porchia

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#2. My heaviness comes from the heights.

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#3. When you made me into another, I left you with me.

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#4. As long as we thing we are worth something, we wrong ourselves.

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

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#6. That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.

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

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#8. I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.

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#9. Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.

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

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#11. Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.

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#12. Near me nothing but distances.

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#13. The confession of one man humbles all.

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#14. Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

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#15. Before I travelled my road I was my road.

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#16. What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.

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

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#18. Everything is a little bit of darkness, even the light.

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

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

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#21. Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.

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#22. I know what I have given you ... I do not know what you have received.

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#23. Beyond my body my veins are invisible.

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

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#25. One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

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

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#27. The dream which is not fed with dream disappears.

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#28. What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.

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

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#30. They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you.

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#31. I am in myself so little that what they do with me scarcely interests me.

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#32. You do not see the river of tears because it lack one tear of your own.

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#33. Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.

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

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#35. The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are.

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#36. He who tells the truth says almost nothing.

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#37. Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.

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

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#39. Some things become such a part of us that we forget them.

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

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#41. Nothing that is complete breathes

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

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#43. One learns not to need by needing.

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

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#45. The shadows: some hide, others reveal.

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#46. You know so much about me and yet you don't understand me. To know is not to understand. We could know everything and still not understand anything.

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

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

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

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

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#51. A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.

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

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

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#54. The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.

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#55. In full light we are not even a shadow.

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

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

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#58. What do others think they see?

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

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#60. A large heart can be filled with very little.

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#61. My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.

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

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#63. Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

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

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#65. God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.

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#66. When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.

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

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#68. Man goes nowhere. Everything comes to man, like tomorrow.

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

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

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

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

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

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#74. You are a puppet, but in the hands of the infinite, which may be your own.

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#75. The less you think you are, the more you bear. And if you think you are nothing, you bear everything.

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

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#77. Only a few arrive at nothing, because the way is long.

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

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

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#80. The less a creature thinks he is, the more he bears. And if he thinks he is nothing, he bears everything.

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#81. A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.

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#82. If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.

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

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#84. I will help you to approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.

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#85. We have a world for each one, but we do not have a world for all.

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

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#87. You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.

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#88. You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.

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#89. 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.

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#90. Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?

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#91. We become aware of the void as we fill it.

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#92. In that world I knew that good was killing me, but I thought it was evil.

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#93. He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.

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

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

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#96. I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.

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#97. 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.

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

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#99. The fear of separation is all that unites.

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#100. 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.

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