Luigi Pirandello Quotes - Page 2

• If we have no other reality beyond the illusion, 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

  Reality, Yesterday, History

  "Six Characters In Search of an Author".

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• When a character is born, he acquires at once such an independence, even of his own author, that he can be imagined by everybody even in many other situations where the author never dreamed of placing him; and so he acquires for himself a meaning which the author never thought of giving him.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Character, Giving, Independence

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters In Search of an Author”, p.49, Jester House Publishing

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• It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Hero, Gentleman, Easier

  Luigi Pirandello (1962). “To clothe the naked: and two other plays”

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• Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one, isn't it?

  Luigi Pirandello

  Way, Opinion

  "Each In His Own Way" by Luigi Pirandello, act I, 1924.

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• 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.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Men, Should Have, Suffering

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters In Search of an Author”, p.49, Jester House Publishing

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

  Luigi Pirandello

  Life, Secret, Concepts

  Luigi Pirandello (1962). “To clothe the naked: and two other plays”

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• As soon as one is born, one starts dying.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Death, Dying, Born

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Henry IV”, p.46, Luigi Pirandello

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

  Luigi Pirandello

  Love You, Self Love, Humanity

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• We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Animal, Thinking, Beast

  Luigi Pirandello (1962). “To clothe the naked: and two other plays”

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• 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.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Heart, Animal, Work Out

  Luigi Pirandello (1962). “To clothe the naked: and two other plays”

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• None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Instinto

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Henry IV”, p.36, Luigi Pirandello

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• One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Writing, Faces

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• La naturaleza utiliza la imaginación humana para elevar su obra de creación a niveles aún más altos.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Nature, Imagination, Environmental

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters in Search of an Author”, p.72, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• A fact is like a sack which won't stand up if it's empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which caused it to exist.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Science, Order, May

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters In Search of an Author”, p.20, Jester House Publishing

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• The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Facts, Blame, Born

  The Rules of the Game, The Life I Gave you [and] Lazarus

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• If you shut yourself up disdainfully in your ivory tower and insist that you have your own conscience and are satisfied with its approval, it is because you know that everybody is criticizing you, condemning you, or laughing at you.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Ivory Tower, Laughing, Approval

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• 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

  Death, Character, Men

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters in Search of an Author”, p.73, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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

  Life, Men, Knowing

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters In Search of an Author”, p.51, Jester House Publishing

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• 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

  Heart, Men, Goes On

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters in Search of an Author”, p.83, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• THE FATHER: But don't you see that the whole trouble lies here? In words, words. Each one of us has within him a whole world of things, each man of us his own special world. And how can we ever come to an understanding if I put in the words I utter the sense and value of things as I see them; while you who listen to me must inevitably translate them according to the conception of things each one of you has within himself. We think we understand each other, but we never really do.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Father, Lying, Men

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters In Search of an Author”, p.15, Jester House Publishing

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• 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

  Women, Looks, Able

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters in Search of an Author”, p.83, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Heart, Men, Guilt

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters In Search of an Author”, p.19, Jester House Publishing

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• Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Truth, Rap, Eye

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• Cuantos más brazos y piernas [niños] tengamos, más ricos seremos.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Children, Legs, Arms

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• I am an "unrealized" character, dramatically speaking.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Carácter

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters In Search of an Author”, p.22, Jester House Publishing

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