53 Quotes by Ugo Betti

We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.

We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of satisfaction in moments like that.

Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.

Behind everything we feel, there is always a sense of fear.

It so difficult to know what the people we love really need.

Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors.