240 Quotes by Cesare Pavese

The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's.

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

The great lovers will always be unhappy, because for them love is great and so they ask of their beloved the same intensity of thought that they have for her – otherwise they feel betrayed.

Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will...

We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.

The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.