All Primo Levi Quotes
- If a writer is convinced that he is honest, then it is very difficult for him to be a bad writer. Bad
- There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect. Courage
- The work of bestial degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to its conclusion by the Germans in defeat. Been
- To give a name to a thing is as gratifying as giving a name to an island, but it is also dangerous: the danger consists… All
- It is this refrain that we hear repeated by everyone: you are not at home, this is not a sanatorium, the only exit is by… All
- At that time I had not yet been taught the doctrine I was later to learn so hurriedly in the Lager: that man is bound… All
- We collected in a group in front of their door, and we experienced within ourselves a grief that was new for us, the ancient grief… Ancient
- To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a… Accuse
- The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is… Absolve
- For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those… Black
- Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable.… Admirable
- Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to… Become Erased
- The aims of life are the best defense against death. Aim
- I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it… Ample
- In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as… Detestable
- 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