1.
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
Antonio Porchia
2.
I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.
Antonio Porchia
3.
Night is a world lit by itself.
Antonio Porchia
4.
The shadows: some hide, others reveal.
Antonio Porchia
5.
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
Antonio Porchia
6.
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
Antonio Porchia
7.
I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone.
Antonio Porchia
8.
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
9.
I know what I have given you, I do not know what you have received.
Antonio Porchia
10.
Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.
Antonio Porchia
11.
A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.
Antonio Porchia
12.
I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.
Antonio Porchia
13.
When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
Antonio Porchia
14.
When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.
Antonio Porchia
15.
We become aware of the void as we fill it.
Antonio Porchia
16.
You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.
Antonio Porchia
17.
The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are.
Antonio Porchia
18.
I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.
Antonio Porchia
19.
The fear of separation is all that unites.
Antonio Porchia
20.
The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.
Antonio Porchia
21.
Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.
Antonio Porchia
22.
A large heart can be filled with very little.
Antonio Porchia
23.
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
Antonio Porchia
24.
My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.
Antonio Porchia
25.
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
26.
We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.
Antonio Porchia
27.
What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.
Antonio Porchia
28.
If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
Antonio Porchia
29.
Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.
Antonio Porchia
30.
Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
Antonio Porchia
31.
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
32.
You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.
Antonio Porchia
33.
Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
Antonio Porchia
34.
When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.
Antonio Porchia
35.
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
Antonio Porchia
36.
I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.
Antonio Porchia
37.
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
38.
Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him.
Antonio Porchia
39.
Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.
Antonio Porchia
40.
I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
Antonio Porchia
41.
A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
Antonio Porchia
42.
Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
Antonio Porchia
43.
Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
Antonio Porchia
44.
Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow.
Antonio Porchia
45.
All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out.
Antonio Porchia
46.
More grievous than tears is the sight of them.
Antonio Porchia
47.
My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.
Antonio Porchia
48.
He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
Antonio Porchia
49.
Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
Antonio Porchia
50.
Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.
Antonio Porchia