Ugo Betti was an Italian judge, better known as an author, who is considered by many the greatest Italian playwright next to Pirandello. These inspirational Ugo Betti Quotes will reshape you.
Best Ugo Betti Quotes
- “Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life… just one. Our life. We have nothing else.” – Ugo Betti
- “There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.” – Ugo Betti
- “Everyone has, inside himself … what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is … a very great, very important character.” – Ugo Betti
- “To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises.” – Ugo Betti
- “At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist.” – Ugo Betti
- “When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that’s necessary for believing in it.” – Ugo Betti
- “I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.” – Ugo Betti
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“Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever.” – Ugo Betti
- “All of us are mad. If it weren’t for the fact that every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn’t be any point in giving each person a separate name.” – Ugo Betti
- “If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.” – Ugo Betti
- “Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.” – Ugo Betti
- “When I say “I,” I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.” – Ugo Betti
- “Behind everything we feel, there is always a sense of fear.” – Ugo Betti
- “When you put a man and a woman together, there are some things they simply have to do. They embrace, they warm each other. All the rest is dead and empty.” – Ugo Betti
- “Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.” – Ugo Betti
- “Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.” – Ugo Betti
- “The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.” – Ugo Betti
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“Nature is honest, we aren’t; we embalm our dead.” – Ugo Betti
- “Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world’s errors.” – Ugo Betti
- “Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.” – Ugo Betti
- “Killing time is the chief end of our society.” – Ugo Betti
- “The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to – look the other way.” – Ugo Betti
- “Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.” – Ugo Betti
- “There is no forgiveness in nature.” – Ugo Betti
- “It’s perfectly obvious that somebody’s responsible and somebody’s innocent. Otherwise, it [justice] makes no sense at all.” – Ugo Betti
- “‘Mad’ is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.” – Ugo Betti
- “This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It’s almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.” – Ugo Betti
- “At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing.” – Ugo Betti
- “A vague uneasiness: the police. It’s like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.” – Ugo Betti
- “A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.” – Ugo Betti
