Quotes from Antonio Porchia

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

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

The fear of separation is all that unites.

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

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

The cold is a good counselor, but it is cold.

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

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

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

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

Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.

Man goes nowhere. Everything comes to man, like tomorrow.

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

A full heart has room for everything and an empty heart has room for nothing.

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