Antonio Porchia Quotes

My heaviness comes from the heights.

Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God.

They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you.

He who tells the truth says almost nothing.

Everything had been stripped of deceptions, that time. And that time I was afraid of everything.

You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.

When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.

You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.

Everything is a little bit of darkness, even the light.

I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.

Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance.

Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.

He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong.

When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.

My final belief is suffering. And I begin to believe that I do not suffer.

We become aware of the void as we fill it.

And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.

My bits of time play with eternity.

He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone.

Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.

The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.

Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.

Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant.

Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.

Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow.

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.

A large heart can be filled with very little.

If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could!

When I believe in nothing, I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing.

I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.

Injury, when it is slight, upsets me; when it is strong it calms me.

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.

I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.

He who does not know how to believe, should not know.

The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.

I know what I have given you, I do not know what you have received.

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.

No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.

Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.