Luigi Pirandello Quotes

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  • We're like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk.

    Wall   Moving   Waiting  
    Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Henry IV”, p.9, 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.

    Heart   Men   Goes On  
    Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters in Search of an Author”, p.83, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Here is a piece of earth. If you stand staring at it and doing nothing, what does the earth yield? Nothing. Just like a woman.

    Yield   Doe   Pieces  
  • 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.

    Life   Men   Knowing  
    Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters In Search of an Author”, p.51, Jester House Publishing
  • The more arms and legs [children] we have, the richer we are.

    Children   Legs   Arms  
  • We think we understand each other, but we never really do.

    Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters In Search of an Author”, p.15, Jester House Publishing
  • Women are like dreams, they are never the way you would like to have them.

    Dream   Women   Way  
  • Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.

    Lying   Identity   Fixed  
    Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Henry IV”, p.34, Luigi Pirandello
  • It is the hardest thing to close the open hand of someone you love.

  • If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.

    Thinking   Harm   Ifs  
    Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters in Search of an Author”, p.79, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • 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.

  • 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."

    Women   Eye   Example  
    Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters In Search of an Author”, p.19, Jester House Publishing via PublishDrive
  • The secret of living is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

    Life   Secret   Concepts  
    Luigi Pirandello (1962). “To clothe the naked: and two other plays”
  • 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!

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

    Father   Lying   Men  
    Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters In Search of an Author”, p.15, Jester House Publishing
  • The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.

    Facts   Blame   Born  
    The Rules of the Game, The Life I Gave you [and] Lazarus
  • 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.

    Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore (Six Characters in search of an Author, 1921) in Three Plays (1964) p. 64
  • We all grasp on to a single idea of ourselves, the way aging people dye their hair. It’s no matter that this dye doesn’t fool you. My lady, you don’t dye your hair to decieve other people, or to fool yourself, but rather to cheat your image in your mirror a little.

    Mirrors   Hair   Ideas  
  • Blind yourself, for I am blind.

    Blind  
    Luigi Pirandello (1998). “Six Characters in Search of an Author”, p.34, Ivan R. Dee
  • Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.

    Life   Needs   Strange  
  • Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

    Time   Gentleman   Heroic  
    Luigi Pirandello (1962). “To clothe the naked: and two other plays”
  • Buffoons, buffoons! One can play any tune on them!

    Play   Tunes   Buffoons  
    Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Henry IV”, p.53, Luigi Pirandello
  • Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king.

  • 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.

    Heart   Animal   Work Out  
    Luigi Pirandello (1962). “To clothe the naked: and two other plays”
  • We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.

    Animal   Thinking   Beast  
    Luigi Pirandello (1962). “To clothe the naked: and two other plays”
  • Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.

    Sleep   Phantoms   Spirit  
    Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Henry IV”, p.53, Luigi Pirandello
  • Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one, isn't it?

    Way   Opinion  
    "Each In His Own Way" by Luigi Pirandello, act I, 1924.
  • None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.

    Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Henry IV”, p.36, Luigi Pirandello
  • Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes

    Luigi Pirandello (1962). “To clothe the naked: and two other plays”
  • I am an "unrealized" character, dramatically speaking.

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