Quotes from Antonio Porchia

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

Before I travelled my road I was my road.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

The chains that bind us 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.