Human Suffering

Famous quotes containing the words human and/or suffering:

“... the mass migrations now habitual in our nation are disastrous to the family and to the formation of individual character. It is impossible to create a stable society if something like a third of our people are constantly moving about. We cannot grow fine human beings, any more than we can grow fine trees, if they are constantly torn up by the roots and transplanted ...”
—Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)

“What can be said,
Except that suffering is exact, but where
Desire takes charge, readings will grow erratic?”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1985)