Antonio Porchia > Quotes

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”
― Antonio Porchia

“We become aware of the void as we fill it.”
― Antonio Porchia

“I know what I have given you...
I do not know what you have received.”
― Antonio Porchia

“When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.”
― Antonio Porchia; Translator W.S. Merwin, Voices

“Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.”
― Antonio Porchia

“I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.”
― Antonio Porchia

“I have come one step away from everything.
And here I stay, far from everything,
one step away.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“Everything is a little bit of darkness, even the light.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“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, Voces Completas / Gesammelte Stimmen

“Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.”
― Antonio Porchia

“You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“Night is a world lit by itself.”
― Antonio Porchia

“The shadows: some hide, others reveal.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.”
― Antonio Porchia

“I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“When I am asleep I dream what I dream
when I am awake.
It's a continuous dream.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.”
― antonio porchia

“When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“Nothing is not only nothing.
It is also our prison.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“He who does not know how to believe, should not know.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“I am in myself so little that what they do with me scarcely interests me.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“The less you think you are, the more you bear. And if you think you are nothing, you bear everything.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“Night is a world lit by itself”
― Antonio Porchia

“My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices