Antonio Porchia Quotes

Through this atmosphere of torrid splendor moved wan beings as richly upholstered as the furniture, beings without definite pursuits or permanent relations, who drifted on a languid tide of curiosity... Somewhere behind them, in the background of their lives there was doubtless a real past, yet they had no more real existence than the poet's shades in limbo.

Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?

I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.

Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.

The more horses you yoke the quicker everything will go - not the rending of the block from its foundation, which is impossible, but the snapping of the traces and with that the gay and empty journey.

Perfectionism may look good in his shiny shoes, but he’s a little bit of an asshole and no one invites him to their pool parties.

Trying to be cool is the easiest path to mediocrity

A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.

With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!

He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun

You're all just pissing in the wind. You don't know it, but you are.

I'm not that shallow, asshole. I don't need money. It's way more important for them to be good-looking.

If you're a young woman in Hollywood, then they want you to look a certain way and paint you in this and that. To this day, it's hard to find people like us, who want to kind of find deep truths, not just skirt above the top of it.

Feeling well that breathed words Would all be lost, unheard, and vain as swords Against the enchased crocodile, or leaps Of grasshoppers against the sun.

It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.

All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.

To shoot at crows is powder flung away.

In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.

Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.

It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them.

Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.

We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

Look up, look up, and let your faith continually increase. Let this faith guide you along the narrow path that leads through the gates of the city into the great beyond, the wide, unbounded future of glory that is for the redeemed.

New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness. A lot of people seem to be similar to the kid in school, which is doing a lot of things with no direct consequence to their joy, or their lives.