Luigi Pirandello's best quotes
The top 3 according to 5 votes from people: I am whoever you believe me to be! · There is no greater madman in the world than one who believes he is right! · Nothing is more complicated than sincerity.. (Updated Jul 7, 2020.)
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.
Automatically translated (original in Italiano). See the original
Top 14
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I am whoever you believe me to be!
Right You Are (If You Think So) (1917), Signora Ponza.
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There is no greater madman in the world than one who believes he is right!
Cap and Bells (1917).
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Nothing is more complicated than sincerity.
Short Stories for a Year.
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Alive to death, but dead to life.
The Late Mattia Pascal (1904).
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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.
The Pleasure of Honesty (1917).
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You only have to start shouting the truth in everyone's face. Nobody believes it, and everyone takes you for mad.
Cap and Bells (1917).
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Put a desire away in a cupboard; open it, and you will find a disappointment.
La vita nuda, short story.
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A stranger to life, Adriano Meis.
The Late Mattia Pascal (1904), chapter IX.
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Life is full of endless absurdities which shamelessly do not even need to seem plausible, because they are true.
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), the Father.
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Confiding in someone: now that really is madness!
Henry IV (1922).
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When a man is pleased with himself he loves humanity.
Each in His Own Way (1924).
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A reality was not given to us and does not exist; we must make it ourselves if we want to be…
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand (1926), book three.
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I am alive and I do not conclude. Life does not conclude.
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand (1926), last chapter.
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Everyone, outside, in front of others, is dressed in dignity; but inside they know all the unconfessable things that go on.
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), the Father.
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Comments (1)
«Io sono vivo e non concludo» me la sono tatuata in testa dal liceo. Il fu Mattia Pascal resta il mio preferito.