Top 120 Antonio Porchia Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

3. “I know what I have given you... I do not know what you have received.”

— Antonio Porchia

4. “Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.”

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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6. “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.”

— Antonio Porchia

7. “When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.”

— Antonio Porchia

8. “One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”

— Antonio Porchia

9. “You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.”

— Antonio Porchia

10. “When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost.”

— Antonio Porchia

11. “We become aware of the void as we fill it.”

— Antonio Porchia

12. “Before I travelled my road I was my road.”

— Antonio Porchia

13. “When I am asleep I dream what I dream when I am awake. It’s a continuous dream.”

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

15. “When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.”

— Antonio Porchia

16. “The fear of separation is all that unites.”

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

18. “Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.”

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

24. “Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.”

— Antonio Porchia

25. “Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?”

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

28. “I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.”

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

32. “Man goes nowhere. Everything comes to man, like tomorrow.”

— Antonio Porchia

33. “My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.”

— Antonio Porchia

34. “Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.”

— Antonio Porchia

35. “My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.”

— Antonio Porchia

36. “Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.”

— Antonio Porchia

37. “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.”

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

40. “No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.”

— Antonio Porchia

41. “Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.”

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

43. “Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.”

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

45. “We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.”

— Antonio Porchia

46. “I began my comedy as its only actor and I come to the end as its only spectator.”

— Antonio Porchia

47. “What do others think they see?”

— Antonio Porchia

48. “My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.”

— Antonio Porchia

49. “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.”

— Antonio Porchia

50. “Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.”

— Antonio Porchia