Quotes from Antonio Porchia

There is a moment in which I die: when I am in front of beauty, and another in which I kill myself: when I am in front of ugliness, and a third in which I do not die, nor kill myself: when I am in front of stupidity.

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

Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow.

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

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

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

My bits of time play with eternity.

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

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

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

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

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

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

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

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

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

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

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

Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.

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

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

The confession of one man humbles all.

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

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