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Famous Antonio Porchia Quotes
“Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.”
“There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.”
“I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.”
“I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone.”
“When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.”
“He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.”
“I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.”
“All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out.”
“Injury, when it is slight, upsets me; when it is strong it calms me.”
“When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.”
“Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.”
“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.”
“My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.”
“The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.”
“I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.”
“You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.”