Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery because we have ... the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality ... which from time to time reveals itself to be vain and illusory.

— Luigi Pirandello

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

— Luigi Pirandello

My opinion is a view I hold until... well until I find something that changes it.

— Luigi Pirandello

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

— Luigi Pirandello

None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.

— Luigi Pirandello

One gives way to the temptation, only to rise from it again, afterward, with a great eagerness to reestablish one's dignity, as if it were a tombstone to place on the grave of one's shame, and a monument to hide and sign the memory of our weaknesses. Everybody's in the same case. Some folks haven't the courage to say certain things, that's all!THE STEP-DAUGHTER: All appear to have the courage to do them though.

— Luigi Pirandello

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

— Luigi Pirandello

The secret of living is to find a pivot the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

— Luigi Pirandello

The secret of living is to find ... the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

— Luigi Pirandello

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be, like the reality of yesterday, an illusion tomorrow.

— Luigi Pirandello