Ugo Betti

Playwright

1892-02-04

Quotes by Ugo Betti

• Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.

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• Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

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• When you want to believe in something you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

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• Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

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• Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.

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• Behind everything we feel, there is always a sense of fear.

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• I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

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• We wander but in the end there is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely The condemned man has that joy

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• Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending step in the natural order?

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• It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.

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• A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.

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• This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

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• A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.

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• We know well enough when were being unjust and despicable. But we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of satisfaction in moments like that.

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• Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.

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• The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.

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• When I say I, I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.

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• Killing time is the chief end of our society.

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• Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

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