135 Quotes by Luigi Pirandello

I hate symbolic art in which the presentation loses all spontaneous movement in order to become a machine, an allegory -- a vain and misconceived effort because the very fact of giving an allegorical sense to a presentation clearly shows that we have to do with a fable which by itself has no truth either fantastic or direct; it was made for the demonstration of some moral truth.

When [man] is happy he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyze it, just as if happiness were his right.

Six Characters in Search of an Author.

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.

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

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

It is the hardest thing to close the open hand of someone you love.

The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.

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