Cesare Pavese Quotes - Page 5

Quotes about:

• Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

  Cesare Pavese

  Power, Free Will, Single Relationship

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.72, Transaction Publishers

  8 Copy quote

• To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.

  Cesare Pavese

  Comfort, Done, Injustice

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.83, Transaction Publishers

  6 Copy quote

• Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.

  Cesare Pavese

  Class, People, Behaviour

  8 Copy quote

• When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.

  Cesare Pavese

  Writing, Fire, Ideas

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.90, Transaction Publishers

  5 Copy quote

• We do not remember days, we remember moments.

  Cesare Pavese

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.172, Transaction Publishers

  183 Copy quote

• You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.

  Cesare Pavese

  Life, Young

  "The Beach: And A Great Fire". Book by Cesare Pavese. Chapter 4, p. 27, 1941.

  4 Copy quote

• There is something indecent in words .

  Cesare Pavese

  Cesare Pavese (1968). “Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. Flint”, New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  4 Copy quote

• In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.

  Cesare Pavese

  Sacrifice, Men, Giving

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.152, Transaction Publishers

  4 Copy quote

• I've discovered nothing. but do you remember how much we talked when we were boys? We talked just for the fun of it. We knew very well it was only talk, but still we enjoyed it.

  Cesare Pavese

  Fun, Boys, Remember

  Cesare Pavese (1968). “Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. Flint”

  4 Copy quote

• Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.

  Cesare Pavese

  Smoking, Smoke

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.25, Transaction Publishers

  7 Copy quote

• If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.

  Cesare Pavese

  Scary, Feelings, Vacuums

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.159, Transaction Publishers

  8 Copy quote

• Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.

  Cesare Pavese

  Suicide, Sadism, Murderer

  Cesare Pavese (1961). “This Business of Living: Diary: 1935-1950”, London : P. Owen

  9 Copy quote

• I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else's understanding.

  Cesare Pavese

  Blood, Understanding, World

  Cesare Pavese (1968). “Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. Flint”

  7 Copy quote

• But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.

  Cesare Pavese

  Lying, Mean, Hiding

  10 Copy quote

• Why so much innuendo, draped like ivy to hide a cesspool, when everyone knew the cesspool was there?

  Cesare Pavese

  Ivy, Innuendo

  Cesare Pavese (1968). “Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. Flint”

  9 Copy quote

• The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.

  Cesare Pavese

  Pain, Men, Feelings

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.261, Transaction Publishers

  7 Copy quote

• You don't remember days, you remember moments.

  Cesare Pavese

  Remember, Moments

  Diary entry for July 28, 1940. "This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950". Book by Cesare Pavese, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

• Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends

  Cesare Pavese

  Travel, Home, Strangers And Friends

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  Dark, Night, Old Wounds

  Cesare Pavese, Geoffrey Brock (2002). “Disaffections: complete poems 1930-1950”, Copper Canyon Pr

  9 Copy quote

• 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.

  Cesare Pavese

  Art, Pain, Suffering

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

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  Cesare Pavese

  Suicide, Choices, Suffering

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

  4 Copy quote

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

  Cesare Pavese

  Grief, Heart, Night

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

  7 Copy quote

• It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny .

  Cesare Pavese

  Fate, Destiny, Happened

  Cesare Pavese (2017). “This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950”, p.345, Routledge

  4 Copy quote

• For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

  Cesare Pavese

  History, Doe, Lafayette

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

  4 Copy quote

• Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.

  Cesare Pavese

  Secret, Normal, Defense

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

  8 Copy quote

Page 5 of 7

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin