Luigi Pirandello Quotes

"Life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true"

"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."

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

"Women are like dreams - they are never the way you would like to have them"

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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!"

"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."

"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.''"

"Our whole knowledge of the world hangs on this very slender thread: the re-gu-la-ri-ty of our experiences"