Ugo Betti

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

— Ugo Betti

It so difficult to know what the people we love really need.

— Ugo Betti

There is no forgiveness in nature.

— Ugo Betti

Killing time is the chief end of our society.

— Ugo Betti

Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

— Ugo Betti

Behind everything we feel, there is always a sense of fear.

— Ugo Betti

At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist.

— Ugo Betti

It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.

— Ugo Betti

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

— 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

The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.

— Ugo Betti

Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors.

— Ugo Betti

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

— Ugo Betti

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

— Ugo Betti

When you put a man and a woman together, there are some things they simply have to do. They embrace, they warm…

— Ugo Betti

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by…

— Ugo Betti

We play make believe, pretend to take ourselves and each other seriously--to love each other, hate each other--but then--it isn't true. It…

— Ugo Betti

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any…

— 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

Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.

— Ugo Betti

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

— Ugo Betti

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

— 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

A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.

— Ugo Betti

At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing.

— Ugo Betti

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

— Ugo Betti

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

— Ugo Betti

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

— Ugo Betti

We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.

— 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

Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.

— Ugo Betti

At a given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, for all eternity, what was there? Nothing.

— 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

Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified…

— Ugo Betti

We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a…

— Ugo Betti