43 Quotes by Antonio Porchia
Antonio Porchia was an Argentine writer who is best known for his book "Voices," a collection of aphorisms and philosophical musings. Porchia's writing is characterized by its spare, poetic language and its exploration of universal themes such as identity, meaning, and the human condition. His work has been compared to that of other philosophical writers such as Franz Kafka and Friedrich Nietzsche. Porchia's writing continues to inspire readers and thinkers around the world with its timeless wisdom and insight. (Bio)
Antonio Porchia Quotes
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing. (Meaning)
I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.
The shadows: some hide, others reveal.
Night is a world lit by itself.
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone.
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance.
I know what I have given you, I do not know what you have received.
A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.
We become aware of the void as we fill it.
The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are.
You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.
The fear of separation is all that unites.
Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.
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.
A large heart can be filled with very little.
What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.
If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point. (Meaning)
What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.
Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow.
Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him.
A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.
Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you.
The confession of one man humbles all.
God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
My heaviness comes from the heights.
The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
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.
When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost.
We have a world for each one, but we do not have a world for all.
I will help you approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.
I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.
Some things become such a part of us that we forget them.
Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.
Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.
Before I traveled my road I was my road.
That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
― Antonio Porchia Quotes
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