Luigi Pirandello

"The greatest obstacle to change is not resistance to the new, but attachment to the known."

"Every society creates the diseases that reveal its values and fears."

"Wisdom whispers while ignorance shouts; we are drawn to the louder voice."

"Love is the one force we cannot rationalize away, though we spend lifetimes trying."

"The mirror shows us our face, but never our true reflection."

"Hope is the denial of evidence, which is why it is so essential to survival."

"We learn nothing from success, only from the failures we are willing to examine."

"Courage is the willingness to fail in front of those whose judgment we fear."

"The past is not fixed; we rewrite it each time we tell our stories."

"Peace is the acceptance that some conflicts have no resolution, only management."

"Beauty is truth that has survived long enough to be appreciated as art."

"Death is not the opposite of life; it is the completion of it."

"Patience is the art of doing nothing while appearing to do something."

"The strongest people are often those who cry alone."

"Fear is the compass that points toward what we truly value."

"Freedom is the burden of being wholly responsible for what we become."

"Time does not heal; it merely makes us forget what once hurt us."

"Nature is indifferent to our suffering and our joy, which is somehow comforting."

"The examined life is often sadder than the unexamined one."