Antonio Porchia Quotes

Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.

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

When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.

It's been a long time since I asked anything of heaven, and my arms still haven't come down.

When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.

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

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

Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.

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

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

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