Human Suffering

Famous quotes containing the words human and/or suffering:

“All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sorts of difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)

“Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a newborn child?”
—Dorothy L. Nolte (20th century)