Not believing in anything is also a religion .
CESARE PAVESEWriting is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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