Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
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
Feeling
Possible
Free
Vacuums
Feelings
Vacuum
Every
Terrifying
Would
Scary
Life
Absolutely
Sin
More quotes by Cesare Pavese
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
Cesare Pavese
There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
Cesare Pavese
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
Cesare Pavese
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
Cesare Pavese
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
Cesare Pavese
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
Cesare Pavese
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
Cesare Pavese
I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
Cesare Pavese
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
Cesare Pavese
I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else's understanding.
Cesare Pavese
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
Cesare Pavese
Narrating incredible things as though they were real old system narrating realities as though they were incredible the new.
Cesare Pavese
Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heaven.
Cesare Pavese
Love is desire for knowledge.
Cesare Pavese
Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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
There is something indecent in words .
Cesare Pavese
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
Cesare Pavese
