A Quote by Antonio Porchia

Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists. — © Antonio Porchia
Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.
You grieve Not that heaven does not exist but That it exists without us
Carlton does not pitch to the hitter, he pitches through him. The batter hardly exists for Steve. He's playing an elevated game of catch.
Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'
Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive, Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?
That that which is neither true nor truthlike does not exist. Now, whatever exists, exists otherwise in something else than it exists in itself.
I think you grieve different elements, you grieve your wife who's gone, you grieve the fact she had cancer and you had to watch her die, you grieve the fact the life you built isn't going to be the same as the one going forward. All these different elements hit you at different times.
What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.
To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve.
Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much less is he acquainted with its nature and quality.
The wise man looks back into the past, and does not grieve over what is far off, nor rejoice over what is near; for he knows that time is without end.
Intuitive cognition of a thing is cognition that enables us to know whether the thing exists or does not exist, in such a way that, if the thing exists, then the intellect immediately judges that it exists and evidently knows that it exists, unless the judgment happens to be impeded through the imperfection of this cognition.
A man can hardly be said to have made a fortune if he does not know how to enjoy it.
The good man does not grieve that other people do not recognize his merits. His only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize theirs.
The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.
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