Luigi Pirandello Quotes

Life is like this: things come and go.

I think everything is temporary.

Stability is not the way of the world.

It's very easy to think that the way things are is the way things will stay, and life just isn't like that.

Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.

Most things don't stay the way they are very long.

The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.

Nothing is forever except change.

Everything flows and nothing abides. Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Nothing is permanent.

A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

There's certainly nothing lasting and definite about the theater.

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

It's not very fashionable, but I love life, and I believe that things disappear and reappear and nothing ever solidifies, no matter how middle-class, housebroken, staid, and solitary someone's life seems to be. That, I think, is what I'm writing about.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Wind and fortune are not lasting.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.