Quotes by Cesare Pavese

“We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.”

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.”

“At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.”

“No one ever kills himself for the love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.”

“The richness of life lies in the memories we have forgotten.”

“Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone elses body”

“No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.”

“Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.”

“He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.”

“Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.”

“Will power is only the tensile strength of ones own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.”

“One must look for one thing only, to find many”

“Love is the cheapest of religions.”

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

“It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?”

“Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves”

“Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world”

“Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You cant deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.”

“Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.”