Antonio Porchia

And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in…

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God.

— Antonio Porchia

I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.

— Antonio Porchia

“Vengo de morirme, no de haber nacido. De haber nacido, me voy”

— Antonio Porchia

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

We have a world for each one, but we do not have a world for all.

— Antonio Porchia

“Cuando tú y la verdad me hablan, no escucho a la verdad. Te escucho a tí.”

— Antonio Porchia

If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.

— 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

Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.

— Antonio Porchia

The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen.

— Antonio Porchia

Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.

— Antonio Porchia

Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.

— 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 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

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

— 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

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

— Antonio Porchia