Quote

We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.

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
Thinking
Deeds
Thoughts
Good
Think

More quotes by Cesare Pavese

Image
Love is desire for knowledge.
Cesare Pavese
Image
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
Cesare Pavese
Image
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
Image
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
Cesare Pavese
Image
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
Cesare Pavese
Image
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
Cesare Pavese
Image
You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
Cesare Pavese
Image
No woman marries for money they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
Cesare Pavese
Image
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
Cesare Pavese
Image
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
Cesare Pavese
Image
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
Cesare Pavese
Image
Don't mix wine and women.
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
The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
Cesare Pavese
Image
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
Image
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.
Cesare Pavese