Voices Quotes

“When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.”
― Antonio Porchia; Translator W.S. Merwin, Voices

“I have come one step away from everything.
And here I stay, far from everything,
one step away.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“Everything is a little bit of darkness, even the light.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voces Completas / Gesammelte Stimmen

“You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“The shadows: some hide, others reveal.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“When I am asleep I dream what I dream
when I am awake.
It's a continuous dream.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“Nothing is not only nothing.
It is also our prison.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“He who does not know how to believe, should not know.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“I am in myself so little that what they do with me scarcely interests me.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“The less you think you are, the more you bear. And if you think you are nothing, you bear everything.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“When you made me into another, I left you with me.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“Nothing that is complete breathes”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“I began my comedy as its only actor, and I come to the end of it as its only spectator.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“Near me nothing but distances.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“I have abandoned the beggarly necessity of living. I live without it.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“Οι πληγές είναι φωλιές από άνθη.”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices

“Εσύ πιστεύεις πως με σκοτώνεις.
Εγώ πιστεύω πως αυτοκτονείς”
― Antonio Porchia, Voices