Quotes by Luigi Pirandello

“Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.”

“You don't know what it means to live the life that you could have lived, if an event over which you have no control, an unforeseeable circumstance, had not distracted and diverted you, and at times...”

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

“Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be, like the reality of yesterday, an illusion tomorrow.”

“Why are you so anxious to destroy in the name of a vulgar, commonplace sense of truth, this reality which comes to birth attracted and formed by the magic of the stage itself, which has indeed more...”

“For man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers ; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or ...”

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

“One gives way to the temptation, only to rise from it again, afterwards, with a great eagerness to reestablish one's dignity, as if it were a tombstone to place on the grave of one's shame, and a m...”

“You dont appreciate the fact that madmen are very lucky.”

“In his madness he became a terrifying actor!”

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

“Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!”

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

“The history of mankind is the history of ideas.”

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

“When the characters are really alive before their author the latter does nothing but follow them in their action in their words in the situations which they suggest to him.”

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

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

“Every true man sir who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.”

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