Quote

I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.

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
Sky
Made
Scarcely
Touched

More quotes by Antonio Porchia

Image
My bits of time play with eternity.
Antonio Porchia
Image
You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.
Antonio Porchia
Image
The fear of separation is all that unites.
Antonio Porchia
Image
We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.
Antonio Porchia
Image
The less you think you are, the more you bear. And if you think you are nothing, you bear everything.
Antonio Porchia
Image
I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
Antonio Porchia
Image
Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
Antonio Porchia
Image
A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
Antonio Porchia
Image
He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.
Antonio Porchia
Image
I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
Antonio Porchia
Image
My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.
Antonio Porchia
Image
I began my comedy as its only actor and I come to the end as its only spectator.
Antonio Porchia
Image
When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.
Antonio Porchia
Image
My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
Antonio Porchia
Image
If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
Antonio Porchia
Image
I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.
Antonio Porchia
Image
Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
Antonio Porchia
Image
I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell I would not go alone.
Antonio Porchia
Image
The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
Antonio Porchia
Image
Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
Antonio Porchia