Antonio Porchia

“Saber morir cuesta la vida.”

— Antonio Porchia

Man goes nowhere. Everything comes to man, like tomorrow.

— Antonio Porchia

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.

— Antonio Porchia

When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.

— Antonio Porchia

“When you made me into another, I left you with me.”

— Antonio Porchia

My bits of time play with eternity.

— 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

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

A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.

— Antonio Porchia

Night is a world lit by itself.

— Antonio Porchia

We become aware of the void as we fill it.

— Antonio Porchia

“Nothing that is complete breathes”

— Antonio Porchia

The shadows: some hide, others reveal.

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison.

— Antonio Porchia

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

— Antonio Porchia

Before I travelled my road I was my road.

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— 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

The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia