240 Quotes by Cesare Pavese

O amor é o grandemanifesto; a urgência de ser, de ter alguma importância e, se a morte vier, morrer comvalentia, com clamor — em suma, permanecer na memória.

That's the one immortal thing about a mortal, Leucò. The memory he carries with him, the memory he leaves behind him. That is what names and words are. When they remember even men smile. A smile of resignation.

We don't remember days,we remember moments.

The cadence of suffering has begun.

Non è bello essere bambini: è bello da anziani pensare a quando eravamo bambini.

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

Someone who has suffered is no longer the same.

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

On ne se souvient pas des jours, on se souvient des instants.