Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Now that I've seen what war is ... I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought to ask himself: "And what shall we make of the fallen? Why are they dead?" I wouldn't know what to say. Not now, at any rate. Nor does it seem to me that the others know. Perhaps only dead know, and only for them is the war really over.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?
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Not believing in anything is also a religion.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will...
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone...
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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.
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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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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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We do not remember days, we remember moments.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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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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To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of suffering, make it our own creation, our own choice; submit to it. A justification for suicide.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.