Antonio porchia Inspirational Quotes

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

I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.

Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him.

More grievous than tears is the sight of them.

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.

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

He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.

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

Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow.

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

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

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

Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.

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.

Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.

Night is a world lit by itself.

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

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

Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.

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.

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.

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

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

Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?

You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.

A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.

A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.

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

My heaviness comes from the heights.

The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen.

My bits of time play with eternity.

The shadows: some hide, others reveal.

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

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

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

We become aware of the void as we fill it.

The confession of one man humbles all.

He who does not know how to believe, should not know.

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

A large heart can be filled with very little.

When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

What do others think they see?

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

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

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

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

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

He who tells the truth says almost nothing.

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

I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.

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

The fear of separation is all that unites.

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

When I am asleep I dream what I dream when I am awake. It's a continuous dream.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Before I traveled my road I was my road.

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

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

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

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

The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

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

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

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

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

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

Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.

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

My final belief is suffering. And I begin to believe that I do not suffer.

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

Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.

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

Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.

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.

I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.

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

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

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

Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison.

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

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.

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

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

When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.

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

I know what I have given you, I do not know what you have received.

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

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

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

When I believe in nothing, I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing.

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

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.

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