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"The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature—is a paradise 
To what we fear of death."
William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, 1604, Act III, Scene 1, lines 114-117 [Claudio].

Light and Darkness — Abbadon Grand Marshall of Hell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRkfyQfW8Ak

"Thus 'justice' is a mockery: man, himself a sinner, cannot presume to judge. That is the lesson driven home."
G. Wilson Knight, The Wheel of Fire: Interpretations of Shakespearian Tragedy (1930), Chapter 4, Routledge, 2001, p. 82.

IA — Conqueror
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7bmviY-Nko

"We went to the show one night, And it certainly was a great sight, This tiger to see, Fierce as he could be, 
And roaring with all his might."
Margaret Sydney, Twilight Stories [Anders makes Bethany worse, who is already darkspawn blighted.]