Cesare Pavese quotes

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

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?

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

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.

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

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

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

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