Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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
Transcend
Qualities
Succeed
Quality
Work
Men
Completing
Succeeds
More quotes by Cesare Pavese
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
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
Cesare Pavese
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
Cesare Pavese
We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
Cesare Pavese
You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.
Cesare Pavese
Don't mix wine and women.
Cesare Pavese
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
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
Cesare Pavese
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
Cesare Pavese
We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
Cesare Pavese
Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.
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
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
A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
Cesare Pavese
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
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
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
Cesare Pavese
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
Cesare Pavese
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
Cesare Pavese
From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
Cesare Pavese
