Quotes from Antonio Porchia

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

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

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

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

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.

Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?

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

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

Beyond my body my veins are invisible.

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

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

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

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

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

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

When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.

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

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

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.

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

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

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

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

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.