Antonio Porchia Quotes
1886–1968 Argentina
Antonio Porchia (13 November 1886 – 9 November 1968) was an Italian-born Argentine writer. His sole book Voces ("Voices") is a collection of aphorisms.
- Argentina
- Poets
273 quotes
Men and things rise, fall, move away, approach. Everything is a comedy of distances.
Man lives measuring, and he’s the measure of nothing. Not even of himself.
Everything is nothing, but afterwards. After having suffered everything.
Yes, this is what is good: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
I have come one step away from everything and here I stay, far from everything, one step away.
I love for the sake of what I have loved, and what I have loved I would not go back to loving.
If I were someone who led himself, I would not take the path that leads to death.
Ever since I alone have been aware of what happens to me, nothing happens to me.
If we didn't lose anything during life, we would lose life without anything.
Everything that I carry tied up in me, can be found anywhere else, freed.
One who dwells in evil doesn’t leave, for fear of running into...evil.
I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
We have a world for each, but we don’t have a world for all.
When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Antonio Porchia (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.