Cesare Pavese Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.

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  Fighting, Years, People

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.54, Transaction Publishers

• But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.

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  Real, Suffering, Purpose

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.57, Transaction Publishers

• The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.

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  Grief, Heart, Night

  Cesare Pavese (1961). “The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950”, New York : Walker

• Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time - is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.

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  Mean, Fighting, Air

  Cesare Pavese (2017). “This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950”, p.211, Routledge

• 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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  Suicide, Choices, Suffering

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.117, Transaction Publishers

• There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first.

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  Art, Pain, Suffering

  Cesare Pavese (2017). “This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950”, p.207, Routledge

• What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.

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  Long, Silence, Suffering

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.26, Transaction Publishers

• You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .

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  Believe, Men, Suffering

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.104, Transaction Publishers

• A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.

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  What Matters, Suffering, World

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.78, Transaction Publishers

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