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
The things I lose completely are those which, lost by me, are not found by others.
When you seem to be listening to my words, they are your words, with me listening.
When I break any of the chains that bind me, I feel that I make myself smaller.
My truths do not last long in me, not as long as those that are not mine.
I am in myself so little that what they do with me scarcely interests me.
In order to reach some heights, I don’t lower them: I raise them higher.
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone.
When I see myself, I wonder: what do others try to see in themselves?
Injury, when it is slight, upsets me; when it is strong, it calms me.
We see by means of something which illumines us, which we do not see.
Times when I understand myself a little, I understand others less.
The chains that bind us most closely are the ones we have broken.
The loss of a thing affects us until we have lost it altogether.
When I throw away what I don't want, it will fall within reach.
As long as we think we are worth something, we wrong ourselves.
When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost.
When I say what I say it’s because what I say has overcome me.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Antonio Porchia (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.