Alone Knowing Quotes by Cesare Pavese

More Quotes by Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese has 69 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee…
• At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your…
• To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those…
• Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace,…
• We never remember days, only moments.
• Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental…
• The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
• Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and…

See all 69 quotes by Cesare Pavese »