Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

“A veces de noche, enciendo la luz para no ver mi propia oscuridad.”

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia