240 Quotes by Cesare Pavese

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

Narrating incredible things as though they were real old system; narrating realities as though they were incredible the new.

Not believing in anything is also a religion .

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

There is something indecent in words .

The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire.

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.

War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values.

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