Quotes by Pavese, Cesare

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mist >>

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

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called >>

Quotations about Suicide

However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act >>

One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow the >>

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine b >>

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.

Pavese, Cesare