Cesare Pavese Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.

  Cesare Pavese

  Death, Suicide, Children

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.336, Transaction Publishers

• One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

  Cesare Pavese

  Children, Doe, Realizing

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.50, Transaction Publishers

• It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

  Cesare Pavese

  Children, Believe, Imagination

• There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, to look back to when we were children.

  Cesare Pavese

  Children, Looks, Fine

  Diary entry for September 06, 1945. "This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950". Book by Cesare Pavese, 2009.

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