Pier Paolo Pasolini Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Football is the last sacred ritual of our time.

The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.

The revolution is now just a sentiment.

Death does determine life.

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

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.

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.

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

We survive, in the confusionof a life reborn beyond reason.

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