Quote

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

Cesare Pavese

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Pleasure
Life
Misery
Rest
Alive

More quotes by Cesare Pavese

Image
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
Cesare Pavese
Image
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
Cesare Pavese
Image
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
Cesare Pavese
Image
When a woman marries she belongs to another man and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her.
Cesare Pavese
Image
Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.
Cesare Pavese
Image
Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't 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.
Cesare Pavese
Image
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
Cesare Pavese
Image
You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.
Cesare Pavese
Image
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
Cesare Pavese
Image
The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
Cesare Pavese
Image
Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
Cesare Pavese
Image
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
Image
A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
Cesare Pavese
Image
To know the world, one must construct it
Cesare Pavese
Image
You don't remember days, you remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
Image
In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
Cesare Pavese
Image
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
Cesare Pavese
Image
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
Cesare Pavese
Image
People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who take good care that ordinary folk don't understand, in the hands, that is, of the government, of the clerical party, of the capitalists.
Cesare Pavese
Image
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
Cesare Pavese