Quotes by Cesare Pavese
“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
“One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.”— Cesare Pavese
“A man doesn't kill himself because of a single woman. He kills himself because of a love that makes him discover his nakedness, his misery, his nothingness.”— Cesare Pavese
“A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is leaning forward, waiting.”— Cesare Pavese
“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to bleed that it can be wounded by a word.”— Cesare Pavese
“You will be loved the day when you can show your weakness without the other person using it to assert his strength.”— Cesare Pavese
“The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, measure it, sound its depths and go down into it.”— Cesare Pavese
“It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.”— Cesare Pavese
“The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.”— Cesare Pavese
“Why is it that we are so loath to be left alone? Why do we always need someone to talk to, someone to be with? It is because we are afraid of ourselves.”— Cesare Pavese
“Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two greatest joys: wandering through memories and telling them to others.”— Cesare Pavese