quotations about hate
As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate.
JOHN LYLY
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit
I didn't know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It's huge and desperate and it longs to be proved wrong. And every day it's proved right it grows a little more monstrous. If the love was passion, the hate will be obsession. A need to see the once-loved weak and cowed beneath pity. Disgust is close and dignity is far away. The hate is not only for the once loved, it's for yourself too; how could you ever have loved this?
JEANETTE WINTERSON
The Passion
There is no passion
More spectral or fantastical than Hate;
Not even its opposite, Love, so peoples air
With phantoms, as this madness of the heart.
LORD BYRON
The Two Foscari
Hatred unlocks no doors in heaven.
WILLIAM F. DEVAULT
"idol of Clay"
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Jane Eyre
Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Stride Toward Freedom
People lose a lot of time in hating others, and there's no fun in it at all.
L. FRANK BAUM
The Adventures of Trot & Cap'n Bill Before They Went to Oz
If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind, as by degrees will break out upon those who are your friends.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The Spectator, July 24, 1711
The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is quiet.
JOHANN PAUL FRIEDRICH RICHTER
Hesperus
Hatred is a passion that never should be permitted to rest in the breast of any human being; if nourished, there is no saying where it may lead its victim, as it often has to the "gallows." If any one you are sure hates you, perhaps you have something hateful about you; if so, mend your ways, and your enemy will cease to hate you, and you'll have ceased to be hateful, so both have benefited. Hatred is devilish, so live above it, and retire to rest each night with a bosom free from hatred to any of God's creatures. If you hate your brother or sister, God cannot love you, nor can you claim to be considered a Christian. Forgive as you hope to be forgiven, or if you forgive not, how can you expect that you will be forgiven. Nourish love and crucify any hatred in you. It is human to err, but it is divine to forgive.
T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH
"On Hatred", Short Essays
Next to meeting somebody who admires someone we admire, we all like to meet somebody who hates someone we hate.
ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES
Poems and Paragraphs
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.
CYRIL CONNOLLY
The Unquiet Grave
In time we hate that which we often fear.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Antony and Cleopatra
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
JAMES BALDWIN
The Fire Next Time
Hatred is self-punishment.
HOSEA BALLOU
Edge-Tools of Speech
Open and avowed hatred far more becomes a man of straightforward character than concealing our sentiments with a smooth brow.
CICERO
attributed, Day's Collacon
Hatred is the greatest cancer that we must squash.
TRACI LORDS
Twitter post, September 3, 2014
Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles. Until it spins around and lies with lips and teeth carved into the semblance of something too passive to punch.
TAHEREH MAFI
Shatter Me
Now I am silent, hate
Up to my neck,
Thick, thick.
I do not speak.
SYLVIA PLATH
Ariel
It is one of the most difficult things in the world to pursuade ourselves that any one can love those whom we ourselves hate.
PRINCESS DE SALM-DYCK
attributed, Day's Collacon