Ugo Betti
Ugo Betti
Ugo Bettiwas an Italian judge, better known as an author, who is considered by many the greatest Italian playwright next to Pirandello...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth4 February 1892
CountryItaly
Ugo Betti quotes about
eyes given open
At a given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, for all eternity, what was there? Nothing.
who-cares mark left-behind
Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
acceptance certain
There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.
guilt kind shame
If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.
death ideas forever
Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever.
firsts accepted duty
Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.
justice innocent responsible
It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.
marriage men long
A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.
doctors police vague
A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.
bullying unjust satisfaction
We know well enough when we're 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.
running ideas long
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.
fate feelings bears
We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.
time our-society killing
Killing time is the chief end of our society.
sister love-is doe
Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.