Luigi Pirandello Quotes

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Six Characters in Search of an Author.

Here is a piece of earth. If you stand staring at it and doing nothing, what does the earth yield? Nothing. Just like a woman.

Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.

One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it.

There is someone who is living my life. And I know nothing about him.

It is the hardest thing to close the open hand of someone you love.

Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.

None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.

Because evil, my dear child, can be done to anyone and by everyone, but good can only be done to those who need it.

As soon as one is born, one starts dying.

It is so.When YOU think so

Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.

The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.

In his madness he became a terrifying actor!

The more arms and legs [children] we have, the richer we are.

Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one, isn't it?

You should show some respect for what other people see and feel, even though it be the exact opposite of what you see and feel.

...and here, in this if I always lose myself.

Buffoons, buffoons! One can play any tune on them!

Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes

If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.

We want to live. THE MANAGER (ironically). For Eternity? THE FATHER No, sir, only for a moment ... in you.

Blind yourself, for I am blind.

Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!

Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.

The secret of living is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.

And no one realizes we should all, always, look like that, each with his eyes full of horror at his own, inescapable solitude.

You don't appreciate the fact that madmen are very lucky.

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve to you.

We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king.

Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.

Women are like dreams, they are never the way you would like to have them.

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

We're like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk.

I am an "unrealized" character, dramatically speaking ...

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

My opinion is a view I hold until ... well, until I find something that changes it.

... my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.