Luigi Pirandello Quotes & Quotations

Luigi Pirandello Quotes

» It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!

» 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.

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

» A fact is like a sack -- it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.

» 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.

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

» Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

» 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!

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

» 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.

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