Antonio Porchia Quotes


"What we pay for with our lives never costs too much."
- Antonio Porchia
"Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity."
- Antonio Porchia
(Related: Brevity, Extreme, Rest)

"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
"Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow."
- Antonio Porchia
(Related: Hope, Flowers, Tomorrow)

"What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same."
- Antonio Porchia
(Related: Words)

"They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own."
- Antonio Porchia
(Related: Road, Will, Wrong)

"Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly."
- Antonio Porchia
"In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing."
- Antonio Porchia
(Related: Heart, Nothing)

"Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides."
- Antonio Porchia
(Related: Truth, Friends)

"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."
- Antonio Porchia
(Related: Will)

"My poverty is not complete: it lacks me."
- Antonio Porchia
(Related: Poverty)

"One lives in the hope of becoming a memory."
- Antonio Porchia
(Related: Hope, Memory)

"Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure."
- Antonio Porchia
(Related: Departure)

"That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness."
- Antonio Porchia
(Related: Evil, Goodness, Man)

"The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken."
- Antonio Porchia
"The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children."
- Antonio Porchia
(Related: Children)

"If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point."
- Antonio Porchia
(Related: Eyes, Will)

"God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man."
- Antonio Porchia
(Related: God, Man)

"He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with."
- Antonio Porchia
"He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone."
- Antonio Porchia
(Related: World)

"You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own."
- Antonio Porchia
(Related: Mourning)

"He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step."
- Antonio Porchia
"I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master."
- Antonio Porchia
"I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them."
- Antonio Porchia
"I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it."
- Antonio Porchia
"He who does not know how to create should not know."
- Antonio Porchia