“I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.”
Pietro Aretino (1492–1556) Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist, and blackmailer
“I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself.”
— Primo Levi, book If This Is a Man
If This Is a Man (1947)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself." by Primo Levi?
Primo Levi44
Italian chemist, memoirist, short story writer, novelist, e… 1918–1987Related quotes
“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”
David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Swati Maliwal (1984) women activist who fights for women rights
TEDx Talks, accessed May 1, 2021
“I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
Actually said by Giuseppe Baretti, February 13, 1766. The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page http://www.samueljohnson.com/apocryph.html#19, retrieved 24 October 2018 <br class="br">Misattributed
“I am alive, and even if I die, all of you are Gamal Abdul Nasser!”
Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970) second president of Egypt
To his followers during the assassination attempt by the Muslim Brotherhood, as quoted in The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
Context: Let them kill Nasser! What is Nasser but one among many? I am alive, and even if I die, all of you are Gamal Abdul Nasser!
