Pier Paolo Pasolini

“If I then discovered a cancer in myself and died, I'd consider it a victory of that reality of things.”

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

...the Church is the merciless heart of the State.

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever,…

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense;…

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

I am not interested in deconsecrating: this is a fashion I hate, it is petit-bourgeois. I want to reconsecrate things as much…

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended…

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

When I make a film I'm always in reality among the trees, and among the people like yourselves. There's no symbolic or…

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments…

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

An artist, if he's unselfish and passionate, is always a living protest. Just to open his mouth is to protest: against conformism,…

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

When the soul hears no other calls than those of the sweet chaos of daily good and evil...

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a…

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

“I am black with love/ neither boy nor nightingale/ perfectly whole as a flower/ I desire without impulse”

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

The power of consumer goods . . . has been engendered by the so-called liberal and progressive demands of freedom, and, by…

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

“The sense comes back to me of life as it always was then, an affliction even blinder because wondrously filled with sweetness.”

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

Football is the last sacred ritual of our time.

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

Death does determine life.

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

“Poor as the poor I cling, like them, to humiliating hopes; like them, each day I nearly kill myself just to live.”

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

The revolution is now just a sentiment.

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams.

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

“Woe to him who doesn't know this Christian faith is bourgeois.”

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

Nothing remains but to hope the end will come to extinguish the unrelenting pain of waiting for it.

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

In the end, oh I know, never, in my haggard passion, have I ever been such a cadaver as now as I…

— Pier Paolo Pasolini