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

— Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living (1946)

About Cesare Pavese

1908 – 1950

Italian poet and novelist, author of the diary "This Business of Living".

“Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it—only then—for the first time.”

“Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.”

“If all this were true, how easy it would be to understand people.”

“Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.”

“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”

“Connection is why we're here. It is what gives purpose and meaning to our lives.”

Attribution note: Source disputed or unverified.

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”