Antonio Porchia Quotes - Page 2

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

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

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.

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

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

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

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

Before I traveled my road I was my road.

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

What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.

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

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

Night is a world lit by itself.

Everything is a little bit of darkness, even the light.

My heaviness comes from the heights.

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

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

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

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

The confession of one man humbles all.

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

When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.

The fear of separation is all that unites.

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.

Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow.