Quotes from Pier Paolo Pasolini

Lo sapevi, peccare non significa fare il male: non fare il bene, questo significa peccare.

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.

Every day my anxiety is higher, every day the grief more mortal. Today more than yesterday terror exalts me…

A quanto pare, tutta la storia umana non fa altro che ripeterci una cosa: è solo ciò che è stato.

my religion was but a fragrance.

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

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

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

The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.

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

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

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.

Death does determine life.

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.

Football is the last sacred ritual of our time.

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

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.

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.

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.