Agony Quote by Ayi Kwei Armah

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust...

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Each person feels the pain in his own way, each has his own scars. So I think I’m as concerned about fairness and justice…

— Haruki Murakami

“Literature keeps presenting the most vicious things to us an entertainment, but what it appeals to is not any pleasure of these things, but…

— Northrop Frye

The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under the innocent…

— Moss Hart

Disgust is expressed by violence, and it is to be noted of our intellectual temper that violence is a quality which is felt to…

— Lionel Trilling

In a cruel and evil world, being cynical can allow you to get some entertainment out of it.

— Daniel Waters

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

— Plato

“I am now going to make an admission. I confess, I agree, that all these good people who protested, who laughed, who did not…

— Paul Valery

“The physical sense of injustice is a dangerous feeling, once it is awakened. It must have outlet, or it eats away the one in…

— D.H. Lawrence

“Regardless of the subject of my films … I am looking for a way of evoking in audiences feelings similar to my own: the…

— Krzysztof Kieślowski

“The world, being in the constant commission of vast quantities of injustice, is a little too apt to comfort itself with the idea that…

— Charles Dickens

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley