Quote

I began my comedy as its only actor and I come to the end as its only spectator.

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
Actors
Ends
Come
Spectator
Spectators
Began
Actor
Comedy

More quotes by Antonio Porchia

Image
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
Antonio Porchia
Image
My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
Antonio Porchia
Image
We become aware of the void as we fill it.
Antonio Porchia
Image
Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.
Antonio Porchia
Image
I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.
Antonio Porchia
Image
If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
Antonio Porchia
Image
The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
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
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
Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.
Antonio Porchia
Image
I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
Antonio Porchia
Image
That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
Antonio Porchia
Image
My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.
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 love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.
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
A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
Antonio Porchia
Image
Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.
Antonio Porchia
Image
Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.
Antonio Porchia
Image
Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.
Antonio Porchia