Quotes by Pavese, Cesare

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest >>

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marryin >>

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love -- any >>

Quotations about Suffering

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overco >>

Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good a >>

It is the lot of man to suffer. >>

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.

Pavese, Cesare