Quote

Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.

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
Suffering
Must
Even
Vain
Adversity
Suffer
Lived

More quotes by Antonio Porchia

Image
If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
Antonio Porchia
Image
You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
Antonio Porchia
Image
I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.
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
He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
Antonio Porchia
Image
I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell I would not go alone.
Antonio Porchia
Image
Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God.
Antonio Porchia
Image
Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.
Antonio Porchia
Image
When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
Antonio Porchia
Image
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Antonio Porchia
Image
If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
Antonio Porchia
Image
Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.
Antonio Porchia
Image
Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow.
Antonio Porchia
Image
The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
Antonio Porchia
Image
My heaviness comes from the heights.
Antonio Porchia
Image
Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.
Antonio Porchia
Image
I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.
Antonio Porchia
Image
You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.
Antonio Porchia
Image
My bits of time play with eternity.
Antonio Porchia
Image
He who tells the truth says almost nothing.
Antonio Porchia