Cesare Pavese Love Quotations

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

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

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

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.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be "lifelong"? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?