Ugo Betti

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

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

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

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

When you want to believe in something you also have to believe in everything thats necessary for believing in it.

Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

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

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever.

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.

There is no forgiveness in nature.

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

The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.