The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
CESARE PAVESEBut 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.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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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 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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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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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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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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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.
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