Cesare Pavese Quotes

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants.

When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.

When I went to Munich, I was perhaps a little too young.

Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.

I said: I must remember this, being small.

I might not remember how the sky looked on any given day. I do remember, though, what it was like to be a boy beneath a sky.

Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood!

It's always a really great feeling when I talk to people who watched 'Jett Jackson' because we were the same age. We were all kids. I was 13 when I started working on that show, and that was part of my childhood.

I don't know why it is, but sometimes I feel like I'm 60. It's like I've been around for a long time. I felt that way even when I was 8.

I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

I suppose you always look back at how easier things were being young. There's always a shame that you're not as naive as you were.

Persona-wise, I represent a lot of people's childhoods.

It's amazing, seeing people of all different ages singing lyrics to songs we wrote when we were so young and thought we knew everything.

I feel like you're only young once.

When you are old you can look back and see yourself when you are young. It is almost like looking down from heaven. And you see yourself as a young woman, just a big girl really, half awake to the world. You see yourself happy, holding in your arms a good, decent, gentle, beloved young man with the blood keen in his veins, who before long is going to disappear, just disappear, into a storm of hate and flying metal and fire. And you just don't know it.

All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!’ This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.

I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood.

Sweet childish days, that were as long, As twenty days are now.

Stay a child while you can be a child.

A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?