All Primo Levi Quotes
- I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man. Amazed
- Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are…the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions. Act
- He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes, accessible to the… Accessible
- This cell belongs to a brain, and it is my brain, the brain of me who is writing; and the cell in question, and within… Along
- Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust. Centaur
- It is neither easy nor agreeable to dredge this abyss of viciousness, and yet I think it must be done, because what could be perpetrated… Abyss
- A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and… Becoming
- This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real. Everyone dreamed past and future dreams, of… Air
- Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness… Antithesis
- Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive… All
- We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experience, we have collectively witnessed a fundamental unexpected event, fundamental precisely because unexpected, not foreseen… Anyone
- Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it. Auschwitz
- Dawn came on us like a betrayer; it seemed as though the new sun rose as an ally of our enemies to assist in our… Allies
- If it is true that there is no greater sorrow than to remember a happy time in a state of misery, it is just as… Anguish
- Our ignorance allowed us to live, as you are in the mountains, and your rope is frayed and about to break, but you don't know… Allowed
- He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good Good
- Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and… Abdication
- The effable is preferable to the ineffable. Amazing Life