Cesare Pavese Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.

  Cesare Pavese

  Home, Mean, Knowing

• Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

  Cesare Pavese

  Patience, Waiting, Occupation

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.281, Transaction Publishers

• Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time - is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.

  Cesare Pavese

  Mean, Fighting, Air

  Cesare Pavese (2017). “This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950”, p.211, Routledge

• You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.

  Cesare Pavese

  Waiting, Branches, Fruit

  Cesare Pavese, Geoffrey Brock (2002). “Disaffections: complete poems 1930-1950”, Copper Canyon Pr

• Certainly, to have a woman who waits at home for you, who will sleep with you, gives a warm feeling like having something you must say; it makes you glow, keeps you company, helps you to live.

  Cesare Pavese

  Home, Sleep, Giving

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.270, Transaction Publishers

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