Antonio Porchia's Quotes

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

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.

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

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

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

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

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

He who does not know how to create should not know.

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

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

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

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

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.

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

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

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

He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

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

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.

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

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

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

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

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