240 Quotes by Cesare Pavese

You dont remember days, you remember moments

Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.

But all years are stupid. It's only when they're over that they become interesting.

People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who take good care that ordinary folk don't understand, in the hands, that is, of the government, of the clerical party, of the capitalists.

What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.

Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.

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

A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.

Certainly, to have a woman who waits at home for you, who will sleep with you, gives a warm feeling like having something you must say; it makes you glow, keeps you company, helps you to live.