Quote #125189
You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.
Antonio Porchia
About This Quote
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Interpretation
The line turns an apparent act of domination into an indictment of the aggressor. Porchia suggests that violence, humiliation, or moral harm aimed at another ultimately corrodes the perpetrator’s own humanity: the victim may suffer, but the attacker is also destroying something essential in themselves. The aphorism’s power lies in its reversal of perspective—what looks like victory is reframed as self-ruin. In Porchia’s characteristic style, the statement is less a literal claim than an ethical paradox: harm rebounds, and the will to annihilate another is a form of spiritual self-annihilation.




