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 More Quotes by Luigi Pirandello More Quotes From Luigi Pirandello None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct. Luigi Pirandello instinct As soon as one is born, one starts dying. Luigi Pirandello born dying death Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind. Luigi Pirandello rap eye truth The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die. Luigi Pirandello doe writing men Here is a piece of earth. If you stand staring at it and doing nothing, what does the earth yield? Nothing. Just like a woman. Luigi Pirandello yield pieces doe I am an "unrealized" character, dramatically speaking. Luigi Pirandello character Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep. Luigi Pirandello phantoms spirit sleep Woman - for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: "Blind yourself, for I am blind." Luigi Pirandello women eye example 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! Luigi Pirandello women able looks Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope! Luigi Pirandello pope woe kings 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. Luigi Pirandello guilt heart men The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist. Luigi Pirandello blame born facts The more arms and legs [children] we have, the richer we are. Luigi Pirandello arms legs children Shake yourself free from the manikin you create out of a false interpretation of what you do and what you feel, and you'll at once see that the manikin you make yourself is nothing at all like what you really are or what you really can be! Luigi Pirandello interpretation shakes feels Six Characters in Search of an Author. Luigi Pirandello six character We all grasp on to a single idea of ourselves, the way aging people dye their hair. It’s no matter that this dye doesn’t fool you. My lady, you don’t dye your hair to decieve other people, or to fool yourself, but rather to cheat your image in your mirror a little. Luigi Pirandello mirrors hair ideas Buffoons, buffoons! One can play any tune on them! Luigi Pirandello buffoons tunes play Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves. Luigi Pirandello fixed identity lying 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. Luigi Pirandello suffering should-have men When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him. Luigi Pirandello alive writing character