Pavese Party Quotes

You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties. ~ Cesare Pavese

Not believing in anything is also a religion . ~ Cesare Pavese

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man ~ Cesare Pavese

There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life. ~ Cesare Pavese

If all this were true, how easy it would be to understand people. ~ Cesare Pavese

There is something indecent in words . ~ Cesare Pavese

Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.) ~ Cesare Pavese

The cadence of suffering has begun. ~ Cesare Pavese

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world. ~ Cesare Pavese

The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal. ~ Cesare Pavese

A corpse is what's left after waking too often. ~ Cesare Pavese

All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit. ~ Cesare Pavese

We don't remember days,we remember moments. ~ Cesare Pavese

Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it. ~ Cesare Pavese

What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her. ~ Cesare Pavese

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

We obtain things when we no longer want them. ~ Cesare Pavese

One must look for one thing only, to find many. ~ Cesare Pavese

Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman. ~ Cesare Pavese

She had wanted to behave like a fully grown woman and it had not come off. ~ Cesare Pavese

Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time. ~ Cesare Pavese

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

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it. ~ Cesare Pavese

We never remember days, only moments. ~ Cesare Pavese

But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever. ~ Cesare Pavese

We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God . ~ Cesare Pavese

The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish. ~ Cesare Pavese

It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone ... ~ Cesare Pavese

We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest. ~ Cesare Pavese

You are like a cloud
Glimpsed between the branches. In your eyes there shines
The strangeness of a sky that isn't yours. ~ Cesare Pavese

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide. ~ Cesare Pavese

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it. ~ Cesare Pavese

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

You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches. ~ Cesare Pavese

But all years are stupid. It's only when they're over that they become interesting. ~ Cesare Pavese

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition. ~ Cesare Pavese

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body. ~ Cesare Pavese

I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company. ~ Cesare Pavese

Even something harsh and difficult is a comfort if we choose it ourselves. If it is imposed on us by others, it is agony. ~ Cesare Pavese

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

Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first? ~ Cesare Pavese

The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away. ~ Cesare Pavese

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

Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace. ~ Cesare Pavese

When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end. ~ Cesare Pavese

We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word. ~ Cesare Pavese

Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always. ~ Cesare Pavese

How can you have confidence in a woman who will not risk entrusting her whole life to you, day and night? ~ Cesare Pavese

A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end. ~ Cesare Pavese

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state. ~ Cesare Pavese

You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young. ~ Cesare Pavese

Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality. ~ Cesare Pavese

Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd. ~ Cesare Pavese

Love is the cheapest of religions. ~ Cesare Pavese

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

I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else's understanding. ~ Cesare Pavese

Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast. ~ Cesare Pavese

From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette ~ Cesare Pavese

What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it. ~ Cesare Pavese

A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh. ~ Cesare Pavese

What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence. ~ Cesare Pavese

You will be loved the day when you will be able to show your weakness without the other person using it to assert his strength. ~ Cesare Pavese

The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows. ~ Cesare Pavese

Don't mix wine and women. ~ Cesare Pavese

All is the same
time has gone by
some day you come
some day you'll die
someone has died
long time ago. ~ 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

Narrating incredible things as though they were real old system; narrating realities as though they were incredible the new. ~ Cesare Pavese

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference. ~ 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

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. ~ 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

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be. ~ Cesare Pavese

But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them. ~ Cesare Pavese

The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's. ~ Cesare Pavese

That's the one immortal thing about a mortal, Leucò. The memory he carries with him, the memory he leaves behind him. That is what names and words are. When they remember even men smile. A smile of resignation. ~ Cesare Pavese

You dont remember days, you remember moments ~ Cesare Pavese

The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come. ~ Cesare Pavese

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

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go. ~ Cesare Pavese

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

Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow. ~ Cesare Pavese

The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others. ~ Cesare Pavese

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

I've discovered nothing. but do you remember how much we talked when we were boys? We talked just for the fun of it. We knew very well it was only talk, but still we enjoyed it. ~ Cesare Pavese

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be. ~ Cesare Pavese

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next. ~ Cesare Pavese

It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny . ~ 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

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. ~ Cesare Pavese

Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heaven. ~ Cesare Pavese

People don't realize that they're being played by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, but more so by the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party does not want another party in there. ~ Glenn Danzig

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? ~ Cesare Pavese

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

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

I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship. ~ 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 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

I was happy enough; I knew that during the night the whole city might go up in flames and all its people be killed, but the ravines, houses, and footpaths would wake in the morning calm and unchanged. ~ Cesare Pavese

Love is desire for knowledge. ~ Cesare Pavese

There ain't no party like a Liz Lemon party 'cause a Liz Lemon party is mandatory! ~ LIZ