53 Quotes by Ugo Betti

We play make believe, pretend to take ourselves and each other seriously--to love each other, hate each other--but then--it isn't true. It isn't true, we don't care at all!

The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.

A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.

A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.

It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.

Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending step in the natural order?

Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever.

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact that every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.