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Top 20 Jonathan Littell Quotes (2025 Update)

Jonathan Littell Quote: “Like translation itself, Asymptote is a fluid web reaching out to all sides, bringing texts and readers together, through the most improbable and marvelous of connections.”

1. “Like translation itself, Asymptote is a fluid web reaching out to all sides, bringing texts and readers together, through the most improbable and marvelous of connections.”

— Jonathan Littell

Jonathan Littell Quote: “If you ever managed to make me cry, my tears would sear your face.”

2. “If you ever managed to make me cry, my tears would sear your face.”

— Jonathan Littell

Jonathan Littell Quote: “I have remained someone who believes that the only things indispensable to human life are air, food, drink and excretion, and the search for truth. The rest is optional.”

3. “I have remained someone who believes that the only things indispensable to human life are air, food, drink and excretion, and the search for truth. The rest is optional.”

— Jonathan Littell

Jonathan Littell Quote: “So who is guilty? Everyone, or no one? Why should the worker assigned to the gas chamber be guiltier than the worker assigned to the boilers, the garden, the vehicles? The.”

4. “So who is guilty? Everyone, or no one? Why should the worker assigned to the gas chamber be guiltier than the worker assigned to the boilers, the garden, the vehicles? The.”

— Jonathan Littell

Jonathan Littell Quote: “There were always reasons for what I did. Good reasons or bad reasons, I don’t know, in any case human reasons. Those who kill are humans, just like those who are killed, that’s what’s terrible. You.”

5. “There were always reasons for what I did. Good reasons or bad reasons, I don’t know, in any case human reasons. Those who kill are humans, just like those who are killed, that’s what’s terrible. You.”

— Jonathan Littell

Jonathan Littell Quote: “This path is very rarely the result of any choice, or even of personal predilection. The victims, in the vast majority of cases, were not tortured or killed because they were good any more than their executioners tormented them because they were evil. It.”

6. “This path is very rarely the result of any choice, or even of personal predilection. The victims, in the vast majority of cases, were not tortured or killed because they were good any more than their executioners tormented them because they were evil. It.”

— Jonathan Littell

Jonathan Littell Quote: “It was one thing or the other: either you are dead, and then in any case there’s nothing else to understand, or else you are not yet dead, and in that case, even with the rifle at the back of your head or the rope around your neck, death remains incomprehensible, a pure abstraction, this absurd idea that I, the only living person in the world, could disappear.”

7. “It was one thing or the other: either you are dead, and then in any case there’s nothing else to understand, or else you are not yet dead, and in that case, even with the rifle at the back of your head or the rope around your neck, death remains incomprehensible, a pure abstraction, this absurd idea that I, the only living person in the world, could disappear.”

— Jonathan Littell

Jonathan Littell Quote: “I looked at them as if I had X-ray vision: beneath the flesh I could clearly make out the skeletons; when Zorn embraced one of the girls it was as if their bones, separated by a thin gauze, knocked together; when they laughed, the grating sound burst forth from the jaws in the skulls.”

8. “I looked at them as if I had X-ray vision: beneath the flesh I could clearly make out the skeletons; when Zorn embraced one of the girls it was as if their bones, separated by a thin gauze, knocked together; when they laughed, the grating sound burst forth from the jaws in the skulls.”

— Jonathan Littell

Jonathan Littell Quote: “There are men for whom war, or even murder, is a solution, but I am not one of them; for me, as for most people, war and murder are a question, a question without an answer, for when you cry out in the night, no one answers.”

9. “There are men for whom war, or even murder, is a solution, but I am not one of them; for me, as for most people, war and murder are a question, a question without an answer, for when you cry out in the night, no one answers.”

— Jonathan Littell

Jonathan Littell Quote: “Ogni uomo desidera soddisfare i propri bisogni e resta indifferente a quelli degli altri.”

10. “Ogni uomo desidera soddisfare i propri bisogni e resta indifferente a quelli degli altri.”

— Jonathan Littell

Jonathan Littell Quote: “Se stavamo commettendo un’ingiustizia, bisognava pensarci su, e decidere se era necessaria e inevitabile, o se era solo il risultato della faciloneria, della pigrizia, della mancanza di riflessione.”

11. “Se stavamo commettendo un’ingiustizia, bisognava pensarci su, e decidere se era necessaria e inevitabile, o se era solo il risultato della faciloneria, della pigrizia, della mancanza di riflessione.”

— Jonathan Littell

Jonathan Littell Quote: “Gli omosessuali gli fanno paura, li odia, Pensa che un omosessuale ereditario possa contaminare con la sua malattia decine di giovani, e che allora tutti quei giovani saranno perduti per la razza.”

12. “Gli omosessuali gli fanno paura, li odia, Pensa che un omosessuale ereditario possa contaminare con la sua malattia decine di giovani, e che allora tutti quei giovani saranno perduti per la razza.”

— Jonathan Littell

Jonathan Littell Quote: “I would have liked to play the piano. Once at a concert an elderly lady leaned toward me: “You are a pianist, aren’t you?” – “Unfortunately not, madam,” I had to answer with regret. Even today, the thought that I don’t play the piano and never will play it suffocates me, sometimes even more than the horrors, the dark river of my past carrying me through the years. I literally can’t get over it.”

13. “I would have liked to play the piano. Once at a concert an elderly lady leaned toward me: “You are a pianist, aren’t you?” – “Unfortunately not, madam,” I had to answer with regret. Even today, the thought that I don’t play the piano and never will play it suffocates me, sometimes even more than the horrors, the dark river of my past carrying me through the years. I literally can’t get over it.”

— Jonathan Littell

Jonathan Littell Quote: “One night, he confessed to me that he was horrified by his first experience of the radical methods used by the Wehrmacht and the SS to combat the partisans; but his profound conviction that only a barbarous, completely inhuman enemy could necessitate such extreme measures had in the end been reinforced. “In the SD, you must have seen some atrocious things,” he added; I assured him I had, but preferred not to elaborate. Instead.”

14. “One night, he confessed to me that he was horrified by his first experience of the radical methods used by the Wehrmacht and the SS to combat the partisans; but his profound conviction that only a barbarous, completely inhuman enemy could necessitate such extreme measures had in the end been reinforced. “In the SD, you must have seen some atrocious things,” he added; I assured him I had, but preferred not to elaborate. Instead.”

— Jonathan Littell

Jonathan Littell Quote: “Volevo semplicemente augurarle di sopravvivere a questa guerra per risvegliarsi fra vent’anni, ogni notte, urlando. Spero che lei non riesca a guardare i suoi figli senza vedere i nostri che ha assassinato.”

15. “Volevo semplicemente augurarle di sopravvivere a questa guerra per risvegliarsi fra vent’anni, ogni notte, urlando. Spero che lei non riesca a guardare i suoi figli senza vedere i nostri che ha assassinato.”

— Jonathan Littell

Jonathan Littell Quote: “If we were committing an injustice, we ought to think about it, and decide if it was necessary and inevitable, or if it was only the result of taking the easy way out, of laziness, of a lack of thought. It was a question of rigor. I knew that these decisions were made at a much higher level than our own; still, we weren’t automatons, it was important not just to obey orders, but to adhere to them; yet I was having doubts, and that troubled me. Finally.”

16. “If we were committing an injustice, we ought to think about it, and decide if it was necessary and inevitable, or if it was only the result of taking the easy way out, of laziness, of a lack of thought. It was a question of rigor. I knew that these decisions were made at a much higher level than our own; still, we weren’t automatons, it was important not just to obey orders, but to adhere to them; yet I was having doubts, and that troubled me. Finally.”

— Jonathan Littell

Jonathan Littell Quote: “But at school, I found myself confronted with cruel, aggressive children, many of whom had lost their fathers in the war, or were beaten and neglected by fathers who had returned from the trenches brutalized and half mad. They avenged themselves, at school, for this lack of love at home by turning viciously against other children who were frailer and more sensitive. They.”

17. “But at school, I found myself confronted with cruel, aggressive children, many of whom had lost their fathers in the war, or were beaten and neglected by fathers who had returned from the trenches brutalized and half mad. They avenged themselves, at school, for this lack of love at home by turning viciously against other children who were frailer and more sensitive. They.”

— Jonathan Littell

Jonathan Littell Quote: “In mezzo a quei tizi avevo l’aria di un intellettuale un po’ complicato, e restavo abbastanza isolato. Il che non mi dava fastidio: dell’amicizia con gente rozza ho sempre fatto a meno.”

18. “In mezzo a quei tizi avevo l’aria di un intellettuale un po’ complicato, e restavo abbastanza isolato. Il che non mi dava fastidio: dell’amicizia con gente rozza ho sempre fatto a meno.”

— Jonathan Littell

Jonathan Littell Quote: “Wasn’t the camp itself, with all the rigidity of its organization, its absurd violence, its meticulous hierarchy, just a metaphor, a reductio ad absurdum of everyday life?”

19. “Wasn’t the camp itself, with all the rigidity of its organization, its absurd violence, its meticulous hierarchy, just a metaphor, a reductio ad absurdum of everyday life?”

— Jonathan Littell

Jonathan Littell Quote: “Your first time?” the Hauptman gently asked. I nodded. “You’ll get used to it,” he went on, “but maybe never completely.” He.”

20. “Your first time?” the Hauptman gently asked. I nodded. “You’ll get used to it,” he went on, “but maybe never completely.” He.”

— Jonathan Littell

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