Cesare Pavese Quotes

There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.

She didn't love me that much, but she moved in with me. That's a plus. And then one night, I caught her making out with another dude on the driveway. That's a minus.

For love deceives the best of woman kind.

I think personally it's not good for anyone - I don't think infidelity leads to happiness. It's painful for the person being cheated on, but also for the person who's cheating.

I have never been So insulted in all my life I could swallow the seas To wash down all this pride First you run like a fool Just to be at my side And now you run like a fool But you just run to hide.

If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.

Because i've suffered. Because many times in my life i have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being trampled or betrayed.

When the sweet talkin's done, a man is a two face, a worrisome thing who'll leave you to sing the blues in the night.

But do you ever think of me, when you lie? Lie down in your bed, your bed of lies.

The worst thing a good girl could do to you is break your heart.

Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.

It's a shame you left without a word, you know. She was just beginning to trust you before that. Before you got angry. Before you ran off. Just like every other man in her life. Lusting after her, full of sweet words, then just walking away. Leaving her alone. Good thing she's used to it by now, isn't it? Otherwise you might have hurt her. Otherwise you just might have broken that poor girl's heart

When I told you I didn't want you it was the blackest kind of blasphemy

Said that I was your all and I believed you. That's why it hurts to the core I gotta leave you.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

For me, I always wonder what's worse: an emotional betrayal or a physical betrayal? That's a really tough call.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

When you see someone you love with somebody else, your heart kind of falls to the ground.

When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again.

To me, the best writing points to something literal or common but is also nuanced: The moment when somebody is telling you they love you while simultaneously disappointing you. Everybody's experienced that.

I've had my heart broken in a lot of different ways a lot of different times by different people - whether it be a family member, a girlfriend, a friend, just all types of relying on people, making yourself vulnerable to people.

No wound is worse than counterfeited love.

there is nothing sorer to the spirit than falling below what one's lover thinks of one.

People have let me down in the past. I've loved something, and it's become a disgrace. I'd rather start again.

We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.