The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
CESARE PAVESEFrom someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
-
-
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
CESARE PAVESE -
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
CESARE PAVESE -
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
CESARE PAVESE -
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
CESARE PAVESE -
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.
CESARE PAVESE -
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
CESARE PAVESE -
Love is the cheapest of religions.
CESARE PAVESE -
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
CESARE PAVESE -
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
CESARE PAVESE -
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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 beyond anyone else’s understanding.
CESARE PAVESE -
Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
CESARE PAVESE -
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
CESARE PAVESE -
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
CESARE PAVESE -
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
CESARE PAVESE