Pier Paolo Pasolini Quotes

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In my desperation there is no more purity, no more innocence... Now I am a desert completely explored; there is no way to save me. I am all consciousness.

Pier Paolo Pasolini
Hope? I have none and furthermore I condemn it with everything in my power. Hope is the flag, the special marker of hypocrisy... I don't believe in it. I believe only in my own vitality.

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

Pier Paolo Pasolini
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.

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

Pier Paolo Pasolini
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
The relationship between a son and his mother is not a historical relationship, it is a purely interior, private relationship which is outside history, indeed it is meta-historical, and therefore ideologically unproductive, whereas what produces history is the relationship of hatred and love between father and son.

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

Pier Paolo Pasolini
It has been said that I have three heroes: Christ, Marx and Freud. This is reducing everything to formulae. In truth, my only hero is Reality. If I have chosen to be a filmmaker as well as a writer it is because, rather than expressing reality through those symbols that are words, I have preferred the cinema as a means of expression - to express reality through reality...

Pier Paolo Pasolini