Human Suffering

Famous quotes containing the words human and/or suffering:

“All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

“Ashtrays to cry into,
the suffering brother of the wood walls,
the forty-eight keys of the typewriter
each an eyeball that is never shut,
the books, each a contestant in a beauty contest,
the black chair, a dog coffin made of Naugahyde....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)