135 Quotes by Luigi Pirandello

Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one, isn't it?

Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king.

Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes

One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it.

Blind yourself, for I am blind.

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.

There is someone who is living my life. And I know nothing about him.

We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.

Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in the commerce of ordinary words, in the slavery of social rules. Souls have their own needs and their own ambitions, which the body ignores when it sees that it's impossible to satisfy them or achieve them.