# Luigi Pirandello's best quotes

From 'I am whoever you believe me to be' to 'Life does not conclude': Pirandello's most quoted lines, from The Late Mattia Pascal to Six Characters in Search of an Author and One, No One and One Hundred Thousand, with the work they come from.

- 5 votes · 14 items
- Jul 7, 2020 · Federico Monti
- https://even.best/en/l/4639/luigi-pirandello-s-best-quotes

## Top 14

1. **I am whoever you believe me to be!** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Right You Are (If You Think So) (1917), Signora Ponza.
2. **There is no greater madman in the world than one who believes he is right!** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Cap and Bells (1917).
3. **Nothing is more complicated than sincerity.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Short Stories for a Year.
4. **Alive to death, but dead to life.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The Late Mattia Pascal (1904).
5. **It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman. You can be a hero once in a while; a gentleman you must be always.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Pleasure of Honesty (1917).
6. **You only have to start shouting the truth in everyone's face. Nobody believes it, and everyone takes you for mad.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Cap and Bells (1917).
7. **Put a desire away in a cupboard; open it, and you will find a disappointment.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — La vita nuda, short story.
8. **A stranger to life, Adriano Meis.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Late Mattia Pascal (1904), chapter IX.
9. **Life is full of endless absurdities which shamelessly do not even need to seem plausible, because they are true.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), the Father.
10. **Confiding in someone: now that really is madness!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Henry IV (1922).
11. **When a man is pleased with himself he loves humanity.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Each in His Own Way (1924).
12. **A reality was not given to us and does not exist; we must make it ourselves if we want to be…** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — One, No One and One Hundred Thousand (1926), book three.
13. **I am alive and I do not conclude. Life does not conclude.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — One, No One and One Hundred Thousand (1926), last chapter.
14. **Everyone, outside, in front of others, is dressed in dignity; but inside they know all the unconfessable things that go on.** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), the Father.

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