Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be "lifelong"? Because life is pain… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness,… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more?… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“You will be loved the day when you will be able to show your weakness without the other person using it to… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
The great lovers will always be unhappy, because for them love is great and so they ask of their beloved the same… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
No one ever kills himself for the love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
In fact a man in love or one consumed with hatred creates symbols for himself, as a superstitious man does, from a… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills.… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be "lifelong"? Because life is pain and the… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Now that I've seen what war is, what civil war is, I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought to ask… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
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;… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile we arrived at our lane and the sight of the olive tree rubbed me the wrong way. I began to see that no… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.) — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
