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Quotes About Existence

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
~ Antonio Porchia
We become aware of the void as we fill it.
~ Antonio Porchia
I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.
~ Antonio Porchia
Everything is a little bit of darkness, even the light.
~ Antonio Porchia
When I am asleep I dream what I dream when I am awake. It's a continuous dream.
~ Antonio Porchia
Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.
~ Antonio Porchia
Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?
~ Antonio Porchia
When you made me into another, I left you with me.
~ Antonio Porchia
Nothing that is complete breathes
~ Antonio Porchia
When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
~ Antonio Porchia
I have abandoned the beggarly necessity of living. I live without it.
~ Antonio Porchia
Vengo de morirme, no de haber nacido. De haber nacido, me voy
~ Antonio Porchia
You are a puppet, but in the hands of the infinite, which may be your own.
~ Antonio Porchia
My bits of time play with eternity.
~ Antonio Porchia
Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
~ Antonio Porchia
Many things, In order to assure me their lack of existence; become mine
~ Antonio Porchia
Saber morir cuesta la vida.
~ Antonio Porchia
Sí, es necesario padecer, aun en vano, para no vivir en vano.
~ Antonio Porchia
Donde hemos puesto algo, siempre creemos que hay algo, aunque no haya nada.
~ Antonio Porchia
Eres cuanto te necesitan, no cuanto eres.
~ Antonio Porchia
In full light we are not even a shadow.
~ Antonio Porchia
There is a moment in which I die: when I am in front of beauty, and another in which I kill myself: when I am in front of ugliness, and a third in which I do not die, nor kill myself: when I am in front of stupidity.
~ Antonio Porchia
Yo a veces no creo en Dios porque veo que en el mundo a la gente le cuesta mucho ser feliz, y si Dios que pudo hacer el mundo como él quería no lo hizo feliz, es que Dios no es tan poderoso como dice la religión, si es que acaso Dios no existe.
~ Antonio Skármeta
La relación que caracteriza de una manera más profunda y general el sentido de nuestro ser es la que une la vida con la muerte, porque la limitación de nuestra existencia por la muerte es decisiva para la comprensión y la valoración de la vida.»
~ Antonio Tabucchi