Top 37 Paolo Pasolini Quotes
#1. 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
#2. The power of consumer goods ... has been engendered by the so-called liberal and progressive demands of freedom, and, by appropriating them, has emptied them of their meaning, and changed their nature.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#4. If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#5. But their discovery of the void brings with it new implications: not only that they must continue on in their actions and diligence, no longer considered as duties but as gratuitous, senseless routines, but also the exhilarating realization that all is nothing but a game.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#6. I don't believe we shall ever again have any form of society in which men will be free. One should not hope for it. One should not hope for anything. Hope is invented by politicians to keep the electorate happy.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#8. Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.
V.S. Naipaul
#9. All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well.
John Stuart Blackie
#10. She robbed me blind, the bitch! ... and she's still at it! everyone who's ever done me wrong, robbed me, repudiated me, pillaged me has never suffered ... and never will suffer! you could call it their reward! ... robbing me brings you good luck!
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#11. In the end, oh I know,
never, in my haggard passion,
have I ever been such a cadaver as now
as I take again in hand my tables of the present
if reality's real, but after it's been
destroyed in the eternal and the moment by
the obsessive idea of a shining nothingness.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#12. I am not interested in deconsecrating: this is a fashion I hate, it is petit-bourgeois. I want to reconsecrate things as much as possible, I want to re-mythicize them.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#14. For to a boy it can seem
that he shall never have what he alone
has never had.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#15. I am black with love/ neither boy nor nightingale/ perfectly whole as a flower/ I desire without impulse
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#16. The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of life.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#17. Nothing remains but to hope the end will come to extinguish the unrelenting pain of waiting for it.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#19. And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#20. When I make a film I'm always in reality among the trees, and among the people like yourselves. There's no symbolic or conventional filter between me and reality as there is in literature. The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#21. If I then discovered a cancer in myself and died, I'd consider it a victory of that reality of things.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#23. The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a necessary feature of the consumer's way of life.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#24. Behold those times re-created by
the brutal power of sunlit images,
the light of life's tragedy.
The walls of the trial, the field
of the firing squad; and the distant
ghost of Rome's suburbs in a ring,
gleaming white in naked light.
Gunshots: our death, our survival.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#26. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#28. The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal.
Paul D. Boyer
#29. Books are the most important of all my possessions. They capture the thoughts, feelings, dreams and lives of their authors, welcoming us into their worlds and inspiring us to emulate their adventures.
Fennel Hudson
#30. Every day my anxiety is higher,
every day the grief more mortal.
Today more than yesterday terror exalts me ...
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#32. 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
#33. I'm a little older and I'm gonna do a bunch more movies and then they're gonna put me in a home for old directors.
Garry Marshall
#34. When the soul hears no other calls than those of the sweet chaos of daily good and evil ...
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#35. Life is too short for any man to hold bitterness in his heart.
Major Taylor
#36. The wisest men are wise to the full in death.
John Ruskin
#37. 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
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