Ordinary Human Language

by Brian Crane

Goethe on Annoying Others

Now there is nothing that irritates me more than when people torment one another, especially when young people in the prime of life, who could be most open to life’s joys, ruin the few good days for each other with antics and realize only too late that they have squandered something irreplaceable.

— Goethe, The Sufferings of Young Werther

Posted September 8, 2016