Born Quote by Cesare Pavese

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

— Cesare Pavese

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

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

“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

Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)

— Cesare Pavese

All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.

— Cesare Pavese