Luigi Pirandello Quotes

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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!"

"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.''"

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

"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."

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

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

"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."