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Letter "C" » Cesare Pavese Quotes
«To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of suffering, make it our own creation, our own choice; submit to it. A justification for suicide.»
Author: Cesare Pavese
(Critic, Novelist, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
accepting, hardship, justification
«No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.»
Author: Cesare Pavese
(Critic, Novelist, Poet, Translator)
| About:
Suicide
| Keywords:
lacks, suicide
«The only joy in the world is to begin»
«One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.»
«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»
Author: Cesare Pavese
(Critic, Novelist, Poet, Translator)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
nakedness, nothingness, vulnerabilities, vulnerability
«The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.»
«Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time / is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.»
Author: Cesare Pavese
(Critic, Novelist, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
bestial, bout, bouts, by fits and starts, by no means, commonplace, defenseless, dwells, fierce, fits, intangible, intangibles, nobility, privilege, relive, relives, reliving, reminder, reminders, so as to, sufferer, sufferers, torture, uncalled-for, waits
«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.»
Author: Cesare Pavese
(Critic, Novelist, Poet, Translator)
| About:
Childhood
| Keywords:
adolescence, formed, impressions, maturity, multiplied, multiplied by, reflections, The Impressions
«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.»
Author: Cesare Pavese
(Critic, Novelist, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
at the worst, Bad Boy, by and by, Company of
«The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.»
Author: Cesare Pavese
(Critic, Novelist, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
closing, dropped, masquerade, masquerades, masquerading
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