Cesare Pavese Quotes about Children

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

Children, Doe, Realizing

Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.50, Transaction Publishers

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.

Cesare Pavese

Death, Suicide, Children

Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.336, Transaction Publishers

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?

Cesare Pavese

Children, Believe, Imagination