A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so… — 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
To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: "You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering . — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace,… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence. — 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
