Cesare Pavese Travel Quotes & Sayings

The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself. — William Least Heat-Moon

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends.
You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it. — Cesare Pavese

Wanna hear something funny?"
"What?"
"I think I started liking you. — Jenny Han

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. — Cesare Pavese

If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight - they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves. — Cesare Pavese

The hardest thing was to give meaning to what appeared to have none. — Tatjana Soli

That a person who did something for somebody's gratitude was more like a 2-D cutout image of a person than a bona fide person. — David Foster Wallace

In twenty years I've found only one intelligent man in the whole town, and he's mad. — Anton Chekhov