Death Quote by Primo Levi — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“It is man who kills, man who creates or suffers injustice; it is no longer man who, having lost all restraint, shares his bed with a corpse. Whoever waits for his neighbor to die in order to take his piece of bread is, albeit guiltless, further from the model of”

“There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.”

“The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.”

“...for a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful.”

“Le differenze possono essere piccole, ma portare a conseguenze radicalmente diverse, come gli aghi degli scambi; il mestiere del chimico consiste in buona parte nel guardarsi da queste differenze, nel conoscerle da vicino, nel prevederne gli effetti. Non solo il mestiere del chimico.”

“Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out.”

“Death is the reward for living”

“Trying to show that you have mental illness to somebody who’s never had it is like trying to describe a new color to the colorblind”

“The cross is not a sign of the church's quiet, suffering submission to the powers-that-be, but rather the church's revolutionary participation in the victory of Christ over those powers. The cross is not a symbol for general human suffering and oppression. Rather, the cross is a sign of what happens when one takes God's account of reality more seriously than Caesar's. The cross stands as God's (and our) eternal no to the powers of death, as well as God's eternal yes to humanity, God's remarkable determination not to leave us to our own devices.”

“Sunsets are loved because they vanish.”

“He's spending a year dead for tax reasons.”