Quotes from Antonio Porchia

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

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

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

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.

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.

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

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

The shadows: some hide, others reveal.

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

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

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

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

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

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

When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.

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

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

They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you.

I am in myself so little that what they do with me scarcely interests me.

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

Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?

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

Night is a world lit by itself

When you made me into another, I left you with me.