Cesare Pavese Quotes

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

Maybe it’s better like this, better that everything should go up in a blaze of dry grass and that people should begin again.

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

There is something indecent in words .

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .

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

Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.