Luigi Pirandello Quotes

The history of mankind is the history of ideas... view

By: Luigi Pirandello

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

By: Luigi Pirandello

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... view

By: Luigi Pirandello

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

By: Luigi Pirandello

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

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... view

By: Luigi Pirandello

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.. view

By: Luigi Pirandello

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

By: Luigi Pirandello

I would love to spend all my time writing to you.. view

By: Luigi Pirandello

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

By: Luigi Pirandello

It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs.. view

By: Luigi Pirandello

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out... view

By: Luigi Pirandello

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

By: 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... view

By: 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... view

By: Luigi Pirandello

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!.. view

By: Luigi Pirandello

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... view

By: Luigi Pirandello