“Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.”

— Antonio Porchia

La verdad tiene muy pocos amigos y los muy pocos amigos que tiene son suicidas.
Voces (1943)

Original

La verdad tiene muy pocos amigos y los muy pocos amigos que tiene son suicidas.

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides." by Antonio Porchia?

Antonio Porchia 276

Italian Argentinian poet 1885–1968

Related quotes

“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”

Aeschylus Agamemnon

Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 832–833

“There are very few honest friends—the demand is not particularly great.”

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) Austrian writer

Es gibt wenig aufrichtige Freunde. Die Nachfrage ist auch gering.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 71.

“Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.”

Doris Lessing book The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

“Always be careful to ask for help. Real help is obtained from a few, very few people: those who put their heart into it.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Fate sempre attenzione a chiedere aiuto. Il vero aiuto si ottiene da poche, pochissime persone: quelle che ci mettono il cuore.
Source: prevale.net

“Only my books anoint me,
and a few friends,
those who reach into my veins.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

Source: The Complete Poems

“Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.”

W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British playwright, novelist, short story writer

"1896", p. 17
A Writer's Notebook (1946)

“The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

"On Truth" in Damn! A Book of Calumny (1918), p. 53
1910s
Context: The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived. Huxley laughed the devils out of the Gadarene swine. Not the laws of the United States but the mother-in-law joke brought the Mormons to surrender. Not the horror of it but the absurdity of it killed the doctrine of infant damnation. But the razor edge of ridicule is turned by the tough hide of truth. How loudly the barber-surgeons laughed at Huxley—and how vainly! What clown ever brought down the house like Galileo? Or Columbus? Or Darwin?... They are laughing at Nietzsche yet...