Quotes by Cesare Pavese

“Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.”

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”

“No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.”

“The only joy in the world is to begin.”

“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 your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in...”

“From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette”

“We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten”

“The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our ownthe place where we liveand the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves.”

“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends.You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential t...”

“The whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one's own solitude, how to communicate with others.”

“The cadence of suffering has begun.”

“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, fightt...”

“And then we cowardswho loved the whisperingevening, the houses,the paths by the river,the dirty red lightsof those places, the sweetsoundless sorrowwe reached our hands outtoward the living chainin...”

“Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.”

“The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.”

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

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.”

“The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.”

“The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.”

“A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.”