Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— 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

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

I began my comedy as its only actor and I come to the end as its only spectator.

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— 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

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

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

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— 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

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

— Antonio Porchia

The less you think you are, the more you bear. And if you think you are nothing, you bear everything.

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia