Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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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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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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What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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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; if not, we’d lose them.
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