Luigi Pirandello citáty

„Keď miluješ, objavuješ v sebe toľké bohatstvo, toľkú nehu a toľko citu, až je ti na neuverenie, že si schopný toľkej lásky.“

—  Luigi Pirandello

Prisudzované výroky

„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

„Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.“

—  Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author

Zdroj: Six Characters in Search of an Author

„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

Zdroj: Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays

„It is so. When YOU think so“

—  Luigi Pirandello

Title of play (1916); also translated as It Is So, If You Think It Is.
Varianta: So It Is (If You Think So)

„If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.“

—  Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author

Zdroj: Six Characters in Search of an Author

„Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!“

—  Luigi Pirandello, Henry IV

Henry IV (1922), trans. Edward Storer http://encarta.msn.com/quote_561557863/Diplomacy_Woe_to_him_who_doesn't_know_how_to_wear_his.html

„Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something which you have to be all the time. Which isn't easy.“

—  Luigi Pirandello

The Pleasure of Honesty (1917), trans. William Murray http://encarta.msn.com/quote_561560170/Behavior_Anyone_can_be_heroic_from_time_to_time_but_a.html