Quote

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

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
Hundredth
Hundred
Part
Together

More quotes by Antonio Porchia

Image
The shadows: some hide, others reveal.
Antonio Porchia
Image
Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.
Antonio Porchia
Image
He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.
Antonio Porchia
Image
The confession of one man humbles all.
Antonio Porchia
Image
Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.
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
Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.
Antonio Porchia
Image
I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.
Antonio Porchia
Image
My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
Antonio Porchia
Image
They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you.
Antonio Porchia
Image
If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
Antonio Porchia
Image
The fear of separation is all that unites.
Antonio Porchia
Image
My bits of time play with eternity.
Antonio Porchia
Image
Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
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
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
If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
Antonio Porchia
Image
Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.
Antonio Porchia
Image
I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.
Antonio Porchia
Image
You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
Antonio Porchia