Best Cesare Pavese Quotes
- If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. All
- Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Anesthetic
- The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. Age
- Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world. Every Luxury
- No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide. Ever Lacks
- Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. Give
- The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten. Forgotten
- Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body. Body
- Lessons are not given, they are taken. Genocide
- One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better. Any
- All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition. All
- Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state. Artist
- If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be. Absolutely
- Love is the cheapest of religions. Cheapest
- No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. All
- The only joy in the world is to begin. Begin
- Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. Cannot Increase
- One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our… Any
- A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by… Alone
- It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at… Believe
- Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the… Addition
- Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are… Air
- The great lovers will always be unhappy, because for them love is great and so they ask of their beloved the same intensity of thought… Ask
- Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.) Death
- From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette Accept