Disgusting Quote by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

“Passion may be false, trivial or unnatural, but, if violent enough, is not without some trace of grandeur.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

Disgust with injustice may sharpen the desire for justice. Readers who don’t see this connection merely wish to be entertained, and I have neither…

— Ayi Kwei Armah

The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are well directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feeling when it…

— Joseph Joubert

“Bodily passion, which has been so unjustly decried, compels its victims to display every vestige that is in them of unselfishness and generosity, and…

— Marcel Proust

“...we have entertained ourselves with the pornography of violence and inflamed passions that might otherwise have slumbered...”

— John Geddes

It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled with firmness,…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Although the progress of civilisation has undoubtedly contributed to assuage the fiercer passions of human nature, it seems to have been less favourable to…

— Edward Gibbon

In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.

— Lord Chesterfield

“Desire is not always lessened by disgust. Nor can it be bestowed, like favor, to those most deserving of it”

— Cassandra Clare

One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting.

— George Orwell

The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state…

— Friedrich Nietzsche