Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes.
—Luigi Pirandello
Topics: Life
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!
—Luigi Pirandello
Topics: Discontent
In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.
—Luigi Pirandello
Topics: Dreams
Woman—for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: “Blind yourself, for I am blind.”
—Luigi Pirandello
Topics: Women, Love
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.
—Luigi Pirandello
Topics: Reality
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
Topics: Reality
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
Topics: Authors & Writing, Fiction
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.
—Luigi Pirandello
Topics: Facts
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.
—Luigi Pirandello
Topics: Aspirations, Appropriateness, Life and Living, Aptness, Goals
I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I’d love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.
—Luigi Pirandello
Topics: Authors & Writing, Writing, Writers
I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.
—Luigi Pirandello
Topics: Relationships
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
Topics: Acceptance, Realization, Awareness
Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
—Luigi Pirandello
Topics: Nature
Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.
—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
Topics: Commitment, Happiness, Dedication
None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.
—Luigi Pirandello
Topics: Instincts
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!
—Luigi Pirandello
Topics: Books, Literature
My opinion is a view I hold until … well, until I find something that changes it.
—Luigi Pirandello
Topics: Opinion, Change
Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.
—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
Topics: Dignity
Life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, because they are true.
—Luigi Pirandello
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- Thomas Aquinas Italian Catholic Priest
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