Luigi Pirandello Quotes

Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery because we have ... the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality ... which from time to time reveals itself to be vain and illusory.
Luigi Pirandello
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.
Luigi Pirandello
I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.
Luigi Pirandello
You too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today since like that of yesterday it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.
Luigi Pirandello
I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.
Luigi Pirandello
You too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today since like that of yesterday it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.
Luigi Pirandello
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.
Luigi Pirandello
None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.
Luigi Pirandello
I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.
Luigi Pirandello
The secret of living is to find ... the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.
Luigi Pirandello
My opinion is a view I hold until... well until I find something that changes it.
Luigi Pirandello
The secret of living is to find a pivot the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.
Luigi Pirandello
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.
Luigi Pirandello
You don’t appreciate the fact that madmen are very lucky.
Luigi Pirandello
In his madness he became a terrifying actor!
Luigi Pirandello
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 monument to hide and sign the memory of our weaknesses. Everybody's in the same case. Some folks haven't the courage to say certain things, that's all!THE STEP-DAUGHTER: All appear to have the courage to do them though.
Luigi Pirandello
Because evil, my dear child, can be done to anyone and by everyone, but good can only be done to those who need it.
Luigi Pirandello
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 unjust that he should have to bear them. On the other hand, when he is happy, he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyse it, just as if happiness were his right.
Luigi Pirandello
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 right to live here than you, since it is much truer than you -- if you don't mind my saying so?
Luigi Pirandello
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.
Luigi Pirandello
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 crushed you, as has happened to me.
Luigi Pirandello
...and here, in this if I always lose myself.
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.
Luigi Pirandello