Hating and Self-Respect

Hating and Self-Respect

On the Pleasure of Hating

In "On the Pleasure of Hating", William Hazlitt says, "Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bitter-sweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal." (DiYanni, 2007) In these words the main focus of Hazlitt is on spirit and pain. According to Hazlitt, the attractiveness of the most thriving writers' functions to wean us from them, by the cant and fuss that is made about them, by hearing their titles everlastingly recurring, and by the number of rude and ...