Top 120 Antonio Porchia Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Night is a world lit by itself.”

— Antonio Porchia

52. “He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.”

— Antonio Porchia

53. “Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.”

— Antonio Porchia

54. “The shadows: some hide, others reveal.”

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

56. “If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.”

— Antonio Porchia

57. “I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.”

— Antonio Porchia

58. “It’s been a long time since I asked anything of heaven, and my arms still haven’t come down.”

— Antonio Porchia

59. “Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.”

— Antonio Porchia

60. “Beyond my body my veins are invisible.”

— Antonio Porchia

61. “When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.”

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

63. “Una cosa, hasta no ser toda, es ruido, y toda, es silencio.”

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

65. “When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.”

— Antonio Porchia

66. “He who tells the truth says almost nothing.”

— Antonio Porchia

67. “When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.”

— Antonio Porchia

68. “No one is a light unto himself, not even the sun.”

— Antonio Porchia

69. “Lo que dicen las palabras no dura. Duran las palabras. Porque las palabras son siempre las mismas y lo que dicen no es nunca lo mismo.”

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

72. “I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.”

— Antonio Porchia

73. “He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.”

— Antonio Porchia

74. “I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.”

— Antonio Porchia

75. “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.”

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

77. “He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong.”

— Antonio Porchia

78. “I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.”

— Antonio Porchia

79. “A large heart can be filled with very little.”

— Antonio Porchia

80. “When I believe in nothing I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing.”

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

82. “You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.”

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

84. “When you made me into another, I left you with me.”

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

87. “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.”

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

89. “The real “it is well” is something I say from the ground, having fallen.”

— Antonio Porchia

90. “You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.”

— Antonio Porchia

91. “All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out.”

— Antonio Porchia

92. “In full light we are not even a shadow.”

— Antonio Porchia

93. “The dream which is not fed with dream disappears.”

— Antonio Porchia

94. “One learns not to need by needing.”

— Antonio Porchia

95. “Everything had been stripped of deceptions, that time. And that time I was afraid of everything.”

— Antonio Porchia

96. “A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.”

— Antonio Porchia

97. “And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.”

— Antonio Porchia

98. “Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God.”

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Antonio Porchia

100. “If a fanatic is willing to give his life for a cause, he’s probably willing to give yours as well I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.”

— Antonio Porchia