Top 120 Antonio Porchia Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Certainties are arrived at only on foot.”

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

103. “Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.”

— Antonio Porchia

104. “My bits of time play with eternity.”

— Antonio Porchia

105. “My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.”

— Antonio Porchia

106. “Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.”

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

108. “My final belief is suffering. And I begin to believe that I do not suffer.”

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

110. “Only the wound speaks its own word.”

— Antonio Porchia

111. “He who does not know how to believe, should not know.”

— Antonio Porchia

112. “The confession of one man humbles all.”

— Antonio Porchia

113. “Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison.”

— Antonio Porchia

114. “A full heart has room for everything and empty heart has room for nothing. Who understands?”

— Antonio Porchia

115. “When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.”

— Antonio Porchia

116. “My heaviness comes from the heights.”

— Antonio Porchia

117. “A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.”

— Antonio Porchia

118. “I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.”

— Antonio Porchia

119. “I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.”

— Antonio Porchia

120. “I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.”

— Antonio Porchia

121. “I am in myself so little that what they do with me scarcely interests me.”

— Antonio Porchia

122. “You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.”

— Antonio Porchia

123. “I have abandoned the beggarly necessity of living. I live without it.”

— Antonio Porchia

124. “Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.”

— Antonio Porchia

125. “He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.”

— Antonio Porchia

126. “More grievous than tears is the sight of them.”

— Antonio Porchia

127. “What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.”

— Antonio Porchia

128. “Near me nothing but distances.”

— Antonio Porchia

129. “You are a puppet, but in the hands of the infinite, which may be your own.”

— Antonio Porchia

130. “Many things, In order to assure me their lack of existence; become mine.”

— Antonio Porchia

131. “In that world I knew that good was killing me, but I thought it was evil.”

— Antonio Porchia

132. “Only a few arrive at nothing, because the way is long.”

— Antonio Porchia

133. “My “I” has gone farther and farther away from me. Today it is my farthest “you”.”

— Antonio Porchia