It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
CESARE PAVESEEvery luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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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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The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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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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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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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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