Luigi Pirandello

The mask we wear becomes our face.

Humor is the salt of life; without it, everything tastes flat.

I write to exorcise the demons of my soul.

The stage is a world in itself, where reality and illusion dance together.

Man is condemned to be free, but freedom is a heavy burden.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Every truth is a lie to someone.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

In the theater, we kill time; in life, time kills us.

My characters are not puppets; they are fragments of my own soul.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

The absurdity of existence is what makes it profound.

We are all actors on the stage of the world, wearing masks we cannot remove.

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Tragedy is the imitation of a noble and serious action.

I laugh to keep from crying over the human condition.

The only way to deal with this life is to find meaning in the meaningless.

Words are clothes for thoughts; sometimes they fit poorly.

In Sicily, the truth is like the sun: blinding and inescapable.

The playwright's task is to strip away illusions to reveal the void beneath.