Antonio Porchia Quotes & Sayings

Nothing is not only nothing.
It is also our prison. — Antonio Porchia

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

One learns not to need by needing. — Antonio Porchia

Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him. — Antonio Porchia

You do not see the river of tears because it lack one tear of your own. — Antonio Porchia

In full light we are not even a shadow. — Antonio Porchia

A full heart has room for everything and empty heart has room for nothing. Who understands? — Antonio Porchia

More grievous than tears is the sight of them. — Antonio Porchia

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

Nothing that is complete breathes — Antonio Porchia

It's been a long time since I asked anything of heaven, and my arms still haven't come down. — Antonio Porchia

Beyond my body my veins are invisible. — Antonio Porchia

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

A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence. — Antonio Porchia

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. — Antonio Porchia

He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with. — Antonio Porchia

He who does not know how to believe, should not know. — Antonio Porchia

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

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

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

My bits of time play with eternity. — Antonio Porchia

God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man. — Antonio Porchia

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

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

Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists. — Antonio Porchia

Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little. — Antonio Porchia

Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing — Antonio Porchia

The fear of separation is all that unites. — Antonio Porchia

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

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

What do others think they see? — Antonio Porchia

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

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

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

I am in myself so little that what they do with me scarcely interests me. — Antonio Porchia

I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes. — Antonio Porchia

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

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

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. — Antonio Porchia

He who does not know how to create should not know. — Antonio Porchia

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

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

A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me. — Antonio Porchia

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me. — Antonio Porchia

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. — Antonio Porchia

He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step. — Antonio Porchia

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

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life. — Antonio Porchia

My "I" has gone farther and farther away from me. Today it is my farthest "you". — Antonio Porchia

I am chained to the earth to pay for freedom of my eyes. — Antonio Porchia

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. — Antonio Porchia

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

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

Only a few arrive at nothing, because the way is long. — Antonio Porchia

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides. — Antonio Porchia

I have abandoned the beggarly necessity of living. I live without it. — Antonio Porchia

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

He who tells the truth says almost nothing. — Antonio Porchia

He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger. — Antonio Porchia

If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point. — Antonio Porchia

I will help you to approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away. — Antonio Porchia

Man goes nowhere. Everything comes to man, like tomorrow. — Antonio Porchia

Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly. — Antonio Porchia

In that world I knew that good was killing me, but I thought it was evil. — Antonio Porchia

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

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

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

You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide. — Antonio Porchia

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

I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived. — Antonio Porchia

My heaviness comes from the heights. — Antonio Porchia

Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing. — Antonio Porchia

The confession of one man humbles all. — Antonio Porchia

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

When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself. — Antonio Porchia

Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them. — Antonio Porchia

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

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

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

You know so much about me and yet you don't understand me. To know is not to understand. We could know everything and still not understand anything. — Antonio Porchia

The less a creature thinks he is, the more he bears. And if he thinks he is nothing, he bears everything. — Antonio Porchia

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

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

Before I travelled my road I was my road. — Antonio Porchia

I know what I have given you ... I do not know what you have received. — Antonio Porchia

I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone — Antonio Porchia

Near me nothing but distances. — Antonio Porchia

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

Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes. — Antonio Porchia

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

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

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

He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something. — Antonio Porchia

When I believe in nothing I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing. — Antonio Porchia

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

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity. — Antonio Porchia

As long as we thing we are worth something, we wrong ourselves. — Antonio Porchia

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

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

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