...and here, in this if I always lose myself.

— Luigi Pirandello

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

— Luigi Pirandello

Because evil, my dear child, can be done to anyone and by everyone, but good can only be done to those who need it.

— Luigi Pirandello

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

— Luigi Pirandello

Every true man sir who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants lives to give a meaning and a value to his own life.

— Luigi Pirandello

For man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers ; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them. On the other hand, when he is happy, he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyze it, just as if happiness were his right.

— Luigi Pirandello

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

— Luigi Pirandello

In his madness he became a terrifying actor!

— Luigi Pirandello

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

— Luigi Pirandello

I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.

— Luigi Pirandello