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

I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it. — Antonio Porchia

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

A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man. — Antonio Porchia

In full light we are not even a shadow. — 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

The shadows: some hide, others reveal. — Antonio Porchia

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

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

Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise. - Antonio Porchia — David James Duncan

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

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

A large heart can be filled with very little. — 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

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

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

Night is a world lit by itself. — Antonio Porchia

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

Near me nothing but distances. — Antonio Porchia

We become aware of the void as we fill it. — Antonio Porchia

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

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

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

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

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. — Antonio Porchia

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

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

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

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

The confession of one man humbles all. — 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

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

My heaviness comes from the heights. — Antonio Porchia

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

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

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

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

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

When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost. — 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

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

Certainties are arrived at only on foot. — 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

Some things become such a part of us that we forget them. — Antonio Porchia

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

Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years. — Antonio Porchia

You are a puppet, but in the hands of the infinite, which may be your own. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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