Cesare Pavese Quotes & Sayings

“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 richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.”

“No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.”

“Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.”

“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.”

“No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.”

“Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.”

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

“The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.”