Cesare Pavese Quotes
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We do not remember days, we remember moments.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
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How can you have confidence in a woman who will not risk entrusting her whole life to you, day and night?
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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A corpse is what's left after waking too often.
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When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves
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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties.
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The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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I've discovered nothing. but do you remember how much we talked when we were boys? We talked just for the fun of it. We knew very well it was only talk, but still we enjoyed it.
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Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heaven.
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Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing.
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Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply men who have no tempestuous inner life. Give company to a lonely man and he will talk more than anyone.
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What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?
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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends
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There is something indecent in words .
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of suffering, make it our own creation, our own choice; submit to it. A justification for suicide.
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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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