Quote

Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.

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
Adversity
Rise
Thinks
Wants
Suffering
Everyone
Thinking

More quotes by Antonio Porchia

Image
Injury, when it is slight, upsets me when it is strong it calms me.
Antonio Porchia
Image
When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.
Antonio Porchia
Image
Some things become such a part of us that we forget them.
Antonio Porchia
Image
When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.
Antonio Porchia
Image
I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.
Antonio Porchia
Image
If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
Antonio Porchia
Image
The confession of one man humbles all.
Antonio Porchia
Image
A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
Antonio Porchia
Image
Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.
Antonio Porchia
Image
Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God.
Antonio Porchia
Image
A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
Antonio Porchia
Image
I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.
Antonio Porchia
Image
I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
Antonio Porchia
Image
When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
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
The less you think you are, the more you bear. And if you think you are nothing, you bear everything.
Antonio Porchia
Image
Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
Antonio Porchia
Image
Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.
Antonio Porchia
Image
Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.
Antonio Porchia
Image
When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
Antonio Porchia