The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
Quote by Cesare Pavese about life, end
Quotes by Cesare Pavese
28 quotes by Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavese - italian poet and novelist
Was born on 09 sep 1908.
Died on 27 aug 1950, at 41 years old.
Died on 27 aug 1950, at 41 years old.
Origin country: Italy
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.
Quote by Cesare Pavese about man, companies, youth, world
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
Quote by Cesare Pavese about ambition, sin, origin, common sense, sense
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
Quote by Cesare Pavese about money, being, world
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
Quote by Cesare Pavese about human imperfections
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.
Quote by Cesare Pavese about hate, body, spirit
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
Quote by Cesare Pavese about life, sin
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Quote by Cesare Pavese about fasting, wish, light
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?
Quote by Cesare Pavese about children, recollection, imagination, world, life
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
Quote by Cesare Pavese about suffering, joy, pain, love, life
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. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
Quote by Cesare Pavese about opinion, circumstances, mistake, rightness
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
Quote by Cesare Pavese about woman, intelligence, fall, money, love
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.
Quote by Cesare Pavese about love, vulnerability, woman
