Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.
Cesare PaveseRead
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
Interpretation
Waiting can be a meaningful activity, but waiting without purpose is disheartening.
This quote by Cesare Pavese highlights the idea that waiting itself can hold value and significance. It suggests that having a purpose or something to look forward to while waiting can provide solace, while the lack of purpose in waiting can lead to a sense of despair and meaninglessness in life.
In practice
In a motivational speech about patience and resilience.
Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhale— you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breath— the night is done. You are light and morning.
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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.
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.
Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.
The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
...When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself.
The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative.
You get racism crossing the street; it's in the very fabric of American society.
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