240 Quotes by Cesare Pavese

Don’t mix wine and women.

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

Un paese ci vuole, non fosse che per il gusto di andarsene via.

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

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.

Prova a dire ai mortali queste cose che sai.

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.

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

You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.