Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Luigi Pirandello
Age: 69 †
Born: 1867
Born: June 28
Died: 1936
Died: December 10
Author
Director
Dramatist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Luwiji Pirandélo
Luidzhi Pirandello
May
Caused
Reason
Empty
Like
Exist
Stand
Fact
Science
Sack
Facts
Sentiment
Order
Sentiments

More quotes by Luigi Pirandello

Image
Those who understood, in fact, say: 'I mustn't do this, I mustn't do that,' so as not to commit some stupidity or other! Splendid! But at a certain point we realize that all life is stupidity so tell me yourself what it means never to have done anything foolish. At the very least it means you have never lived.
Luigi Pirandello
Image
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.
Luigi Pirandello
Image
The more arms and legs [children] we have, the richer we are.
Luigi Pirandello
Image
If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.
Luigi Pirandello
Image
We're like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk.
Luigi Pirandello
Image
Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.
Luigi Pirandello
Image
It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.
Luigi Pirandello
Image
It is so.When YOU think so
Luigi Pirandello
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Shake yourself free from the manikin you create out of a false interpretation of what you do and what you feel, and you'll at once see that the manikin you make yourself is nothing at all like what you really are or what you really can be!
Luigi Pirandello
Image
I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.
Luigi Pirandello
Image
Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king.
Luigi Pirandello
Image
Women are like dreams, they are never the way you would like to have them.
Luigi Pirandello
Image
Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes
Luigi Pirandello
Image
In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.
Luigi Pirandello
Image
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
Image
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
Image
One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it.
Luigi Pirandello