Cesare Pavese Quotes

You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.

The difficulty in life is the choice.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.

I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride.

I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.

You have to make difficult choices in your life, and you just have to be happy with them.

I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.

You make a choice in your life, and it affects your life in all the ways, good and bad.

We all have to make choices in life.

I think the last thing you want in life is to live with regret.

I have a whole journey - everybody does in life.

You are responsible for the choices you make in this life period, end of story.

No one sets their life out and says, 'Boy, this is what I think I'm going to go through.'

When I was little, the world was simple. But as a young adult, I'm learning that as we have to make choices - education, career, lifestyle - life gets more and more complicated.

You know, in life there are only three or four fundamental decisions to make. The rest is just luck.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.

The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.

Everybody has their own story; everybody has their own journey.

One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.

I believe that every life is a collection of individual 'journey stories.'

In the end it doesn't matter what you do.

I'm just kind of taking whatever life gives me and hoping that I make the right decision.