Best Cesare Pavese Sayings
- 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. Your… Awakening
- 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.… Already Made
- Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference. Always Love
- The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal. Brutal
- Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long. Activity
- There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him. Day
- You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young. Inspirational
- There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery. Alive
- Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible. Occupation
- Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared. Know Whether
- One must look for one thing only, to find many. Find
- The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities. Acceptance
- He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. Adversity
- No one ever kills himself for the love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery,… Any
- We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten. Days
- The richness of life lies in the memories we have forgotten. Forgotten