Cesare Pavese Quotes

Forgive me now - tomorrow I may no longer feel guilty.

Forgiveness has its comforts, but it can never give you back what you've lost.

The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.

If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

Forgiving is giving up the wish that things could have been different. They weren't. That's the past. Let it go.

Reconciliation and forgiveness can actually help all of us move on in a healthier, happier way.

I can't dwell on the past. It's over, there's nothing I can do about it.

You don't have to move on to let go.

A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.

I'm sorry about yesterday," she said. He hung on to his straps and shrugged. "Yesterday happens.

You don't rest well as long as you're seeking vengeance. I feel sad justice wasn't done, but it's time to move on and sleep well.

But the close withdrew: the hand softened. It was over-- the moment.

I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts o' taking revenge: it can never mean as you're t' have your old feelings back again, for that's not possible.

How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare.

When you forgive somebody else you accept the responsibility for your own future.

I don't believe in being vengeful or trying to send a message to someone. You waste your energy that way.

I've had no contact with my daughter for years. That's her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don't want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

There are some truths to some of the stories, but a lot of it isn't - you just have got to let it go.

Getting revenge on a guy is just not worth it to me. I mean, it definitely sucks at the time, but obviously you're not supposed to be with that person.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

A lot of people, when they say 'forgive and forget,' they think you completely wash your brain out and forget everything. That is not the concept. What I think is you forgive and you forget so you can transform your experiences, not necessarily forget them but transform them, so that they don't haunt you or handicap you or kill you.

The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.

Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours.