Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandellowas an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his almost magical power to turn psychological analysis into good theatre." Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written in Sicilian. Pirandello's tragic farces are often seen as forerunners of the Theatre of the Absurd...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth28 June 1867
CountryItaly
Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.
A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.
A fact is like a sack which won't stand up if it's empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which caused it to exist.
Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one, isn't it?
Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.
Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.
The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.
The secret of living is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.
It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!
I am an "unrealized" character, dramatically speaking...
As soon as one is born, one starts dying.
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!