Cesare Pavese Quotes

Most popular Cesare Pavese Quotes

We do not remember days, we remember moments. - Cesare Pavese quote.
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
— Cesare Pavese
Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. - Cesare Pavese quote.
Literature is a defense against the attacks of life.
— Cesare Pavese This Business of Living: Diaries, 1935-1950

literature

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. - Cesare Pavese quote.
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
— Cesare Pavese This Business of Living: Diaries, 1935-1950

love pain life

Hate is always a clash between our own spirit and someone else's body. - Cesare Pavese quote.
Hate is always a clash between our own spirit and someone else's body.
— Cesare Pavese This Business of Living: Diaries, 1935-1950

hate

You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering. - Cesare Pavese quote.
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering.
— Cesare Pavese This Business of Living: Diaries, 1935-1950

suffering

Waiting is still an occupation. It is not having anything to wait for that is terrible. - Cesare Pavese quote.
Waiting is still an occupation. It is not having anything to wait for that is terrible.
— Cesare Pavese Il Mestiere di Vivere

hope

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. - Cesare Pavese quote.
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer.
— Cesare Pavese This Business of Living: Diaries, 1935-1950

life mistakes

One cannot know one's own style and consciously employ it.  One always uses a pre-existent style, unconsciously molding it into something fresh. - Cesare Pavese quote.
One cannot know one's own style and consciously employ it.  One always uses a pre-existent style, unconsciously molding it into something fresh.
— Cesare Pavese This Business of Living: Diaries, 1935-1950

style

We do not remember days; we remember moments.
— Cesare Pavese

memory