Ugo Betti (4 February 1892, Camerino – 9 June 1953, Rome) was an Italian judge, better known as an author, who is considered by many the greatest Italian playwright next to Pirandello.
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.
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.
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.
Killing time is the chief end of our society.
There is no forgiveness in nature.
It so difficult to know what the people we love really need.
When I say "I," I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.
A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.
Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.
The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.
Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life. . . just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
Everyone has, inside himself. . . what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is. . . a very great, very important character.
Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.
A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.
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 isn't true, we don't care at all!
I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.