It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
CESARE PAVESERemember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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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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There is something indecent in words .
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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