Quote

A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.

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
Quality
Work
Men
Completing
Succeeds
Transcend
Qualities
Succeed

More quotes by Cesare Pavese

Image
Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.
Cesare Pavese
Image
We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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
Love is the cheapest of religions.
Cesare Pavese
Image
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Cesare Pavese
Image
In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.
Cesare Pavese
Image
From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
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
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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
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
You don't remember days, you remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
Image
Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply men who have no tempestuous inner life. Give company to a lonely man and he will talk more than anyone.
Cesare Pavese
Image
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
Cesare Pavese
Image
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
Cesare Pavese
Image
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
Image
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
Cesare Pavese
Image
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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
Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
Cesare Pavese