Antonio Porchia Quotes

I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.

What do others think they see?

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

We become aware of the void as we fill it.

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

A large heart can be filled with very little.

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

He who tells the truth says almost nothing.

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

The shadows: some hide, others reveal.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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