Logo
Quote by Cesare Pavese
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it. – Cesare Pavese

Other quotes by Cesare Pavese

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? – Cesare Pavese

Category:
Imagination
Author
Cesare Pavese
Read Quote

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. – Cesare Pavese

Category:
Infatuation
Author
Cesare Pavese
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Depression
category

The madness of depression is the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained. – William Styron

Category:
Depression

Human existence must be a kind of error…it may be said of it, it is bad today and every day it will get worse, until the worst of all happens. – Arthur Schopenhauer

Category:
Depression

Depression is melancholy minus its charms — the animation, the fits. – Susan Sontag

Category:
Depression

He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan. – Alain de Botton

Category:
Depression

Random Quotes

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression. – Edward Hopper

Category:
Nature

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called “truth.” – Dan Rather

Category:
Teacher Appreciation

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open. – Emma Goldman

Category:
Women

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life. – Swami Vivekananda

Category:
God