Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
Cesare Pavese
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
Biographer
Journalist
Linguist
Literary Critic
Literary Editor
Poet
Screenwriter
Translator
Writer
Artists
State
Artist
States
Monks
Bourgeois
Monk
More quotes by Cesare Pavese
You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.
Cesare Pavese
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
Cesare Pavese
Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
Cesare Pavese
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
Cesare Pavese
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
Cesare Pavese
Certainly, to have a woman who waits at home for you, who will sleep with you, gives a warm feeling like having something you must say it makes you glow, keeps you company, helps you to live.
Cesare Pavese
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
Cesare Pavese
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
Cesare Pavese
From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
Cesare Pavese
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
Cesare Pavese
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
Cesare Pavese
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
Cesare Pavese
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
Cesare Pavese
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
Cesare Pavese
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
Cesare Pavese
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.
Cesare Pavese
It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
Cesare Pavese
Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)
Cesare Pavese
I was happy enough I knew that during the night the whole city might go up in flames and all its people be killed, but the ravines, houses, and footpaths would wake in the morning calm and unchanged.
Cesare Pavese
