Theodor Adorno Quotes About Suffering
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The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject
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Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.
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Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing poetry after Auschwitz is impossible.
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There is something embarrassing in... the way in which, ... turning suffering into images, harsh and uncompromising though they are, ... wounds the shame we feel in the presence of the victims. For these victims are used to create something, works of art, that are thrown to the consumption of a world which destroyed them.
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