Antonio Porchia Quotes

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

No one is a light unto himself, not even the sun.

Night is a world lit by itself.

I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.

Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison.

Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.

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

There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.

When I am asleep I dream what I dream when I am awake. It's a continuous dream.

Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?

If a fanatic is willing to give his life for a cause, he's probably willing to give yours as well I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received

Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.

We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.

Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.

Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.

That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.

Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.

A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.

They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.

I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.

The dream which is not fed with dream disappears.

You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.

My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.

The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are.

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.

Beyond my body my veins are invisible.

You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.

What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.

My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.

When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.

A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.

More grievous than tears is the sight of them.

Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.

The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen.

The shadows: some hide, others reveal.

We have a world for each one, but we do not have a world for all.

The less you think you are, the more you bear. And if you think you are nothing, you bear everything.

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

The fear of separation is all that unites.

When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.

The confession of one man humbles all.

All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out.

My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.