Quote

That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.

Antonio Porchia

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
Aphorist
Poet
Writer
Men
Domesticated
Goodness
Mankind
Evil
Cannot

More quotes by Antonio Porchia

Image
Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.
Antonio Porchia
Image
You know so much about me and yet you don't understand me. To know is not to understand. We could know everything and still not understand anything.
Antonio Porchia
Image
I will help you approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.
Antonio Porchia
Image
I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
Antonio Porchia
Image
If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could!
Antonio Porchia
Image
The confession of one man humbles all.
Antonio Porchia
Image
I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.
Antonio Porchia
Image
When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
Antonio Porchia
Image
Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.
Antonio Porchia
Image
Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.
Antonio Porchia
Image
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Antonio Porchia
Image
I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.
Antonio Porchia
Image
Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.
Antonio Porchia
Image
My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.
Antonio Porchia
Image
If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.
Antonio Porchia
Image
Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.
Antonio Porchia
Image
I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.
Antonio Porchia
Image
My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
Antonio Porchia
Image
Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
Antonio Porchia
Image
You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
Antonio Porchia