Luigi Pirandello

"The greatest wisdom is in knowing oneself."

"In seeking truth, you may find pain; in seeking pleasure, you will find emptiness."

"Life is a very sad play."

"The life which is unexamined is not worth living."

"To a father wishing to be a friend to his son, it is an ungrateful undertaking."

"I am fond of music that touches me or makes me think."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"We forgive only when we love."

"Success requires no explanation. Failure permits none."

"Each of us is changing the world every moment."

"The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable."

"Each person has a world of their own."

"I am not mad; I am perfectly well aware."

"We are all products of the society around us."

"Patience is a form of faith."

"To create one must first destroy."

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."

"That which we resist, persists."

"In the face of absurdity, we must imagine Sisyphus happy."

"The only constant is change itself."

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

"We become what we think about all day long."

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

"History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes."

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it."

"We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by drowning in our thoughts."

"Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine."

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."