Quotes by
Antonio Porchia |
1885-1968 , Italian-Argentinian poet
Argentinian writer and poet of Italian origin. He wrote a Spanish book entitled Voces (Voices), a book of aphorisms.He has been a cult author for a number of renowned figures of contemporary literature and thought such as André Breton, Jorge Luis Borges and Henry Miller, amongst others. Some critics have paralleled his work to Japanese haiku.
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Quotations
| • | When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time. 13 |
| • | You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide. 13 |
| • | Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison. 11 |
| • | The shadows: some hide, others reveal. 8 |
| • | I will help you to approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away. 7 |
| • | The tragedy of a man is greater when he gives it up. 6 |
| • | Man goes nowhere. Everything comes to man, like tomorrow. 6 |
| • | What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same. 6 |
| • | When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller. 6 |
| • | I know what I have given you... I do not know what you have received. 6 |
| • | When you made me into another, I left you with me. 5 |
| • | I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived. 5 |
| • | He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone. 5 |
| • | You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen. 5 |
| • | He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong. 5 |
| • | In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing. 5 |
| • | They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. 5 |
| • | They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you. 5 |
| • | One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. 5 |
| • | In full light we are not even a shadow. 4 |
| • | Nothing that is complete breathes. 4 |
| • | I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone. 4 |
| • | I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is. 4 |
| • | Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God. 4 |
| • | Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life. 4 |
| • | 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. 4 |
| • | What we pay for with our lives never costs too much. 4 |
| • | Everything is a little bit of darkness, even the light. 4 |
| • | When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest. 4 |
| • | Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow. 4 |
| • | A large heart can be filled with very little. 4 |
| • | I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it. 4 |
| • | When I am asleep, I dream what I dream when I am awake. It's a continuous dream. 4 |
| • | We become aware of the void as we fill it. 4 |
| • | He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something. 3 |
| • | If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point. 3 |
| • | A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors. 3 |
| • | Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little. 3 |
| • | Night is a world lit by itself. 3 |
| • | Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror. 3 |
| • | Yes, it is necessary to suffer, even in vain, so as not to live in vain. 3 |