Cesare Pavese Quotes

The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We'll speak to the night as it's whispering softly.

Cesare Pavese

• Soul
• Night
• Silence
• Wound
• Ache

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• I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • History
  • Small
  • Politics

• Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • People
  • Country
  • Why

• When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.

  

  Usher
  • Dance
  • Made
  • Jokes

• Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Family
  • She
  • Bad

• Born for success he seemed, With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining gifts that took all eyes.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Heart
  • Success
  • Eyes

• History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly belong to all of us. We must not let it happen again.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • People
  • Power
  • History

• I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama.

  

  Ramakrishna

• Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Broken

• Being must be felt. It can't be thought.

  

  Eckhart Tolle

• Salary, (I said, quite offended) what do I care for salary? I do not want the salary; I want the position. It is glory enough to go back to the Pittsburgh Division in your former place. You can make my salary just what you please and you need not give me any more than what I am getting now... Oh, please don't speak to me of money!

  

  Andrew Carnegie
  • Money

• My mom has given me my sense of style. She has taught me how individual style is so beautiful, what you appreciate on someone else might not be good for you. For her, style is all about being comfortable, and she has an innate sense of sophisticated style.

  

  Bibhu Mohapatra
  • Good
  • She
  • Beautiful

• As a songwriter, I got used to being in the background.

  

  Jason Boyd

• Nobody is in the process of making any changes that we can be specific about.

  

  Arthur Hertzberg

• At the end of the day, it's me versus you, and I'm trying to get you out. If I can throw you six curveballs in a row and get you out, I'm going to do it all day.

  

  Drew Pomeranz
  • Trying

• I'm a huge nerd, I admit to that. I love to play video games, I love to read, and of course, I've gotta still get my studies in and all. I love to learn. But I also love to do stop motion animation with my little Lego figures. I love to play around on the computer with that.

  

  Atticus Shaffer
  • Stop
  • Nerd

• I did play other sports growing up. I played cricket and all those other things, but I was just so much more talented in golf, and that's all I wanted to do.

  

  Jason Day
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Sports

• I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage.

  

  Keith O'Brien
  • Marriage
  • Wonder

• John McGovern taught me that it's OK to write repeatedly about the same things.

  

  Colm Toibin

• Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Policy
  • Move
  • Drugs

• Every day can be like Christmas in its love and its peace if our hearts open up and make room for love. The holy child is waiting to be born in every instant, not just once a year.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Peace
  • Waiting
  • Child

• I'm terrified of growing up. Once you become an adult, how to you step back from that? It's something that wakes me up at night.

  

  Lorde
  • Up
  • Night
  • Growing

• If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Picture
  • Young

• Current Catholic worship often ignores the essential connection between truth and beauty, body and soul, at the center of the Catholic worldview. The Church requires that we be faithful, but must we also be deaf, dumb, and blind? I deserve to suffer for my sins, but must so much of that punishment take place in church?

  

  Dana Gioia
  • Soul
  • Church
  • Suffering

• The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We'll speak to the night as it's whispering softly.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Silence