Cesare Pavese Quotes

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

• Suicide
• Submission
• Disappearing

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The period from 2002 to 2007 was probably our best period. We created a strategy to build global scale, footprints in each of the geographies and dramatically built our international business.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Business
  • Best
  • Period

• Everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me. We completed each other.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Me
  • Place
  • Everything

• I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Technology

• Because I've done a lot of theater, I know what power is and how megalomaniacs are, since I've certainly played some.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Done
  • Power
  • Know

• In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Problem
  • Reason
  • Religious

• Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.

  

  Ian Hart
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Responsibility
  • Actions
  • Cnn

• If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Nice
  • Queen
  • Title

• I think it need realness, you should speak on thing that you know about, that you being from, that you experienced or that you been around, you know. I think you need a good hook, good beats and good lyrics.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Good
  • Know
  • Speak

• I think the only consistent thing is that I like projects that explore different social themes. 'Our Family Wedding' is a comedy, but it deals with two different cultures coming together. It's also about people letting go.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Different
  • Family

• If you've been on the covers of some magazines and been in a few movies that have been seen by people, for some reason, women seem to be drawn to you.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Women
  • Movies

• While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Grief

• When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am gone, but don’t forget to add, in common justice, that I was never converted to anything.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Words
  • Justice
  • Farewell

• It does not destroy matter, which is reassuring. Rewriting one law of physics is worse than trying to eat one peanut.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Trying
  • Law

• Mind your till, and till your mind.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Mind

• If you’re going to do something that crazy, save it for when it’ll make a difference. But absent near-omniscience there’s no way to know when that is. You can only make your best approximate calculation. You can only make your throw and try to puzzle out the results afterward.

  

  Ann Leckie
  • Crazy

• I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

  

  Bess Myerson
  • Phoenix

• Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

  

  Fulton J. Sheen
  • Death

• It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Children

• An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Gentleman
  • Old Men
  • Shabbiness

• Stop the incitement in your media and your schools.Stop naming public squares and athletic teams after suicide bombers.And come to the negotiating table when you have prepared your people to forego hatred and renounce terrorism - and Israel will embrace you.Until that day, there can be no peace with Hamas. Peace at any price isn't peace; it's surrender.

  

  Eric Cantor
  • People
  • Peace
  • Stop

• The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves. All of these people who are heroes, these guys who have been lily white and clean all their lives, if they went through what I went through, they would commit suicide. They don't have the heart that I have. I've lived places they can't defecate in.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • True
  • Respect
  • Suicide

• Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Great
  • Music
  • Advantage

• 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
  • Suicide
  • Submission
  • Disappearing