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Infatuation is like a drug that gives you the best high yet gives you the worst headache after.
— Luke Blaise Pereira
LUBOV. I'm quite sure there wasn't anything at all funny. You oughtn't to go and see plays, you ought to go and look at yourself. What a grey life you lead, what a lot you talk unnecessarily.
— Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
Good enough never is
— Debbi Fields
The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our ability to enjoy a happy and joyful life.
— Dalai Lama XIV
You say be honest, but honestly you don't want honesty
— William Joseph Perry
A true believer is a danger to humanity.
— Al Jaffee
Things are more like they are now...than they have EVER been before!
— Uncle Arnie Mamath
The reason is obvious. You're my grandfather, okay. Like it or not, you're who you are and i'm who i am. And i'm here right now, so what are we going to do about it? -Adam Cayhall-
— John Grisham
No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred.
— George Orwell
Ain’t nothing wrong with a little crew love!” True mocked her.
— K'wan
You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.
— Gene Wolfe
The healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.
— Phoebe Stone
But if there was a protocol for how to say goodbye to your newly ex-boyfriend's brother, right after you kissed him and probably sent your ex into the arms of his willing ex-girlfriend, I didn't know what it was.
— Rachel Vincent, Reaper
Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction- only enough to paralyze you and make you... well, useless.
— Daniel Nayeri, Another Faust
He has reverted, in other words, back into a pure balls-to-the-wall nerdism rivaled only by his early game-coding days back in Seattle. The sheer depth and involution of the current nerdism binge would be hard to convey to anyone. Intellectually, he is juggling half a dozen lit torches, Ming vases, live puppies, and running chainsaws. In this frame of mind he cannot bring himself to give a shit about the fact that this incredibly powerful billionaire has gone to a lot of trouble to come and F2F with him.
— Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
Thos who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.
— Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles
Hearts know nothing of time-not age or length of acquaintance. They know only what they need.
— Jayne Rylon, Driven
We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our delicately contrived lies.
— Val Edward Simone
Change is the most beneficial power available to you, simply change the things you don't like, replacing them with your true desires.
— Steven Redhead, Keys to Creating Your Reality
To tell you the truth. I am a wild and passionate novelist. I am therefore easily given over to telling wild and passionate lies.
— Val Edward Simone
Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.
— Maya Angelou
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
— George Bernard Shaw
I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
— Tennessee Williams, Sweet Bird of Youth
Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.
— William Shakespeare, Richard III
…in that moment, as he saw and smelled how irresistible its effect was and how with lightning speed it spread and made captives of the people all around him—in that moment his whole disgust for humankind rose up again within him and completely soured his triumph, so that he felt not only no joy, but not even the least bit of satisfaction. What he had always longed for—that other people should love him—became at the moment of his achievement unbearable, because he did not love them himself, he hated them. And suddenly he knew that he had never found gratification in love, but always only in hatred—in hating and in being hated.
— Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Now, in their love, which was stronger, there were the seeds of hatred and fear and confusion growing at the same time: for love can exist with hatred, each preying on the other, and this is what gives it its greatest fury.
— T.H. White, The Once and Future King
Hate is a useless emotion.
— Carrie Jones, Need
Her hatred glittered irresistibly. I could see it, the jewel, it was sapphire, it was the cold lakes of Norway.
— Janet Fitch, White Oleander
Hatred is so much easier to win than love - and so much harder to get rid of.
— Enid Blyton, Six Cousins Again
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
— Malachy McCourt
Gregory: Go to hell.Dane: I'd be glad to leave you in it.
— Anne Osterlund, Academy 7
This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other,for hatred comes home to the hand that chose it.
— Simon Armitage, The Death of King Arthur: A New Verse Translation
I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but above all else, most of all, I believe in the one thing that can come out of people's mouths: vomit.
— Dennis Potter, The Singing Detective
Never did he once consider directing his hatred toward the hunters. Such an emotion would have destroyed him ... His subconscious knew what his min did not guess-that hating them would have consumed him, burned him up like a piece of soft coal, leaving only flakes of ash and a question mark of smoke.
— Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
... that kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations ...
— Elizabeth Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers
When hatred judges, the verdict is just guilty.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
There's little value in seeking to find reasons for why people do what they do, or feel the way they feel. Hatred is a most pernicious thing, finding root in any kind of soil. It feeds on itself." "With words.
— Steven Erikson
Soon all of you immortalsWill be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for?Have you run out of thunderbolts?
— Euripides, The Trojan Women
Our souls yearn for connection with all souls. There are people we think we prefer and others we don’t, but half the time that’s a lie: We tell ourselves the fairy tale of our hatreds out of fear, but we revisit that tale as it suits us. Deep down, we’d love to love and be loved by all.
— Alexandra Katehakis, Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred.
— Thornton Wilder, The Ides of March
You couldn't listen to honest man whom you hate.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day
— Charles Bukowski
Lemme take your picture! You fucking bok gwai low got a face carved out of rotten potato cured in dogshit, runover with a towtruck driven by Hellen Keller in a puke fit on pills...
— Frank Chin, The Chickencoop Chinaman & The Year of the Dragon
Your tears are never invisible---there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point them out.
— Shannon L. Alder
I warn you all, hatred is finding fertile soil within me. And in your compassion, in your every good intention, you nurture it.
— Steven Erikson, Memories of Ice
Love sometimes makes people ruthless in a way that not even hatred can.
— Francesca Marciano, Casa Rossa
There are plenty of good reason for fighting," I said, "but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It's that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive. "It's that part of an imbecile," I said, "that punishes and vilifies and makes war.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
Hatred needs scorn. Scorn is hatred's nectar!
— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, The Crimson Curtain
There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task of making each other wretched. Hatred seemed to be the one faculty which had survived in undiminished vigor where all else was dropping into ordered and symmetrical decay.
— Saki, The Chronicles of Clovis
The way you blunder from one catastrophe to the next, it's a wonder the whole galaxy doesn't hate you.The galaxy is a big place, General. You provincial military types don't get far enough out to really see that.-General Tagon & Captain Kevyn Andreyasn
— Howard Tayler, Resident Mad Scientist
Henry wondered not for the first time if her blood ran red or black.
— Anna Godbersen, Envy
When everyone hates a person, you should investigate thoroughly, and when everyone loves a person, you should also investigate thoroughly.
— Confucius, The Analects
People existed, however, who believed that closet racist were everywhere around them. They needed to believe this in order to have prupose and meaning in their lives, and to have someone to hate.
— Dean Koontz, The Face of Fear
the kiss and the bite are such close cousins that in the heat of love they are too readily confounded
— Heinrich von Kleist
But I value their hatred. I find it very useful. You see, people are always at their weakest when they're angry.
— Lionel Luthor from Smallville
The US is the most wretchedly villainous state of all times. Anyone aware of global issues can easily imagine how vast the hatred for the United States - a corrupted, swollen, paralysing and suffocating political entity - must be across the Third World - and among the thinking minority of the West too.
— Pentti Linkola, Can Life Prevail?
He spoke in hard and angry earnest, if a man ever did," replied the girl, shaking her head. "He is an earnest man when his hatred is up. I know many who do worse things; but I'd rather listen to them all a dozen times, than to that Monks once.
— Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
I already knew that I had the ability to free myself from hatred, and I viewed this as my most significant conquest.
— Ingrid Betancourt, Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle
…and from that moment Buck hated him with a bitter and deathless hatred.
— Jack London, The Call of the Wild
He could not blame the Army, Angelo could blame the Army; Angelo hated the Army. But he didnt hate the Army, not even now. He remembered what Maureen had told him once that it was the system that was at fault. But he could not even blame the system, because the system was not anything, it was only a kind of accumulation of everybody, and you could not blame everybody, not unless you wanted the blame to become diluted into a meaningless term, a just nothing. Besides, this system here in this country was the best system the world had ever produced, wasnt it? This system was by far and above the best system anywhere else in the world today. He felt if he did not find somebody to blame pretty soon he would hate everybody.
— James  Jones, From Here to Eternity
It is hard, she thought, it is hard for us to think of people who dislike us because none of us, in our heart, believes that we deserve the hatred of others.
— Alexander McCall Smith, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party
We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.
— Mitch Albom
Why do you hate me so much?To be honest, I don't know why,but I really hate to feel this way.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
If I keep grinning maybe my inoperable colon cancer won't hurt so much.
— Tony Millionaire, Maakies
You expect to shut that feeling away? No, I ask that you feel it more. There's no other way to stand over your enemy and cut out his heart. Accept your hatred and you won't be rash or stupid, you'll be cold. Don't quiet the storm. Become the storm.
— Adam Burch, Song of Edmon
I seeIn many an eye that measures meThe mortal sickness of a mindToo unhappy to be kind.Undone with misery, all they canIs to hate their fello
— A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad
Hatred is a curse that only love can cure.
— Anthony T. Hincks
Hatred may last a lifetime, but love is ever lasting.
— Anthony T. Hincks
He's a well known entrepreneur. His products have changed the world. He created the world's largest personal-computer software company. He's written more than 10 books, built a Fortune 100 company and fought to eradicate poverty and disease. Yet people hate him. He's a regular recipient of hatred on the internet and in his public life. That hatred is often times brutal and uncalled for.
— Andrew MacDermott
I've been at some pains to tell you about myself because among other reasons I think we should know who our enemies are. I've known people to spend their lives nursing a hatred of phantoms and they were not happy people.
— Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
That's the thing about hatred, it can become rancid, and it'll turn into poison if you keep it bottled too long. Hatred will eat through any container and seep into the groundwater of a soul. Revenge is never enough to expel it because it keeps bubbling up anew. What you don't realize–can't really–is that by that time, it's all you are. You don't have the hate in you. The hate is you. When that wine is consumed, you won't ever be able to rid yourself of it. Can't vomit it up or spit it out. It'd be as impossible as escaping yourself.
— Michael J. Sullivan, Age of Swords
Hatred. Some people get filled with it and explode. If they survive, they move on. Others just let it dribble out over the years, like a leaky bucket. One day they notice the bucket is empty, and they wonder what had been in it in the first place. Still others use hatred as a weapon, going so far as to pass it onto others–an ugly, unwanted gift disguised as a virtuous heirloom.
— Michael J. Sullivan, Age of Swords
Does the hatred you feel ever disappear? Or is it something that never goes away... No matter how many times you try to erase it? What I have always feared the most... Is myself. Because I, too, have hatred inside me.
— Naoki Urasawa, PLUTO: 浦沢 直樹 x 手塚 治虫 005
There were all her feelings for him, sharp and defined, one as true as the other. And there was the other, this hatred, just as real as the rest. She could have done her feelings up in little packets and given them to Stanley. She longed to hand him that last one, for a surprise. She could see his eyes as he opened that...
— Katherine Mansfield, Prelude
You made me hate the person I was becoming—only because you wanted me to—and for that, you will never be forgiven.
— Ahmed Mostafa
When we miss understanding, we meet misunderstanding. Misunderstanding always pushes understanding far away!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Love emancipates you from prison of envy and jealousyIt makes u invisible to hatred and oblivious of self
— irrfan ishaq
The hatred is not a feeling; it is a poisoning disease of mental and heart. One should eliminate before it outbreaks since it undermines the prestige, pride and national image.
— Ehsan Sehgal
The administration, whether it is small or large, it is, as a company or a state, it is with uniform or not. If the ignorant, immoral, loose-lips, uncultured and without etiquette, opportunistic, liar, mentality vain, dishonest and unfair people are there, I am just sure of it that the destination is the destruction, chaos, slavery and hatred.
— Ehsan Sehgal
A kingdom established on hatred is a function of denial of God
— Sunday Adelaja
Destructive force of hatred is a virus
— Sunday Adelaja
You had to stand in line to hate him.
— Hedda Hopper
It was not for the piano-tuner to know that in this still, grey, winter-gripped dining-room, this apparent mortuary of desire and passion (in which the lift rumbled and knives and forks scraped upon plates), waves were flowing forward and backward, and through and through, of hellish revulsion and unquenchable hatred!
— Patrick Hamilton, The Slaves of Solitude
Hatred is just a funny and absurd rhyme with no tune.
— Auliq Ice
He hated himself," Gwen said. "You just got caught in the cross fire.
— Kelly Creagh, Oblivion
DESEGREGATE THE BUSES WITH THIS 7 POINT PROGRAM:1. Pray for guidance.2. Be courteous and friendly.3. Be neat and clean.4. Avoid loud talk.5. Do not argue.6. Report incidents immediately.7. Overcome evil with good.Sponsored by Interdenominational Ministerial AllianceRev. A. L. Davis, Pres.Rev. J. E. Poindexter, Secretary
— John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me
The real story is the universal one of men who destroy the souls and bodies of other men (and in the process destroy themselves) for reasons neither really understands. It is the story of the persecuted, the defrauded, the feared and detested.
— John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me
Where hatred exists, let love be your final thoughts.
— Auliq-Ice
Dante, I think, committed a crude blunder when, with a terror-inspiring ingenuity, he placed above the gateway of his hell the inscription, 'I too was created by eternal love'--at any rate, there would be more justification for placing above the gateway to the Christian Paradise...the inscription 'I too was created by eternal hate'...
— Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo
The great poets are full of bullshit. Love has nothing on hatred's capacity to give a man purpose.
— Luke Scull, Sword of the North
It's amazing, the increase in grammatical errors in proportion to the level of hatred in the content of hate mail.
— Christina Engela, Demonspawn
If you hate, you lose who you are.
— Louisa  Reid, Black Heart Blue
He let Julius go. There was beginning to rise in him a feeling of profound disgust--a kind of hatred almost, of himself, of Julius, of everything.
— André Gide, Lafcadio's Adventures
The genocide [in Rwanda] was not a spontaneous eruption of tribal hatred, it was planned by people wanting to keep power. There was a long government-led hat campaign against the Tutsis.
— Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
Hatred and greed are heavy loads. Your motive, on the other hand, is love. And instead of priding yourselves on your cunning, you recognize how weak you are...so weak that you must depend totally on the Spirit of God.
— Brother Andrew, God's Smuggler
All I ask the haters--and I, too, am one--is that they strive to perfect their contempt, even consider bringing it to bear on poems, where it will be deepened, not dispelled, and where, by creating a place for possibility and present absences (like unheard melodies), it might come to resemble love.
— Ben Lerner, The Hatred of Poetry
Most of us carry at least a weak sense of a correlation between poetry and human possibility that cannot be realized by poems. The poet, by his very claim to be a maker of poems, is therefore both an embarrassment and accusation.
— Ben Lerner
There's a reason that murderous hatred has to be taught- and not just taught, but forcibly implanted. It's not a naturally-occurring phenomenon. It is a lie. It is a lie told over and over again- often to people who have no resources and who are denied alternative views of the world. It's a lie my father believed, and one he hoped to pass on to me.
— Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice
The old sporadic fanaticism of religious hatred had been skillfully perverted into the cold, steady fanaticism of national hate.
— Franz Werfel, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
Oftentimes I have hated in self-defense
—  but if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.
The whole world is festering with unhappy souls: The French hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles' Italians hate Yugoslavs, South Africans hate the Dutch; and I don't like anybody very much!
— Sheldon Harnick
The hatred that I harbored for Lou and Paul faded into the background. The cold, lonely mountains which once filled my mouth and mind with the madness of Zarathustra shifted into a lithium passivity. Even Wagner was nothing more than a jester for some cathartic writing, allowing me to purge the bales of contempt that I had for the man.
— Dylan Callens, Operation Cosmic Teapot
Hatred does not stir the stone men half so much as hunger.
— George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
Hate the sin, love the sinner.” (Gandhi) - Restrict the damager and make selfish actions unworthy together, but let them know that its not hatred. Help another to have a better life and all have a benefit.
— L.H.
Hatred towards thy neighbor is the cage that deprives us from social freedom.
— Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela
Each man must administer his hatred cautiously. Mine is equitable. I distribute it evenly among those who are frozen in the past and those who perspire in the present. Because while the former are hemorrhoidal in their sensibility, the latter are constipated in the brain. And they complement each other by both betraying the law of life that demands the immediate defecation of all useless detritus, be it antiquated illusion or contemporary cowardice.
— Juan Filloy, Op Oloop
I am penitent," says Vohannes. "I am penitent for all the relationships this shame has ruined. I am penitent that I've allowed my shame and unhappiness to spread to others. I've fucked men and I've fucked women, Father Kolkan. I have sucked numerous pricks, and I have had my prick sucked my numerous people. I have fucked and been fucked. And it was lovely, really lovely. I had an excellent time doing it, and I would gladly do it again. I really would." He laughs. "I have been lucky enough to find and meet and come to hold beautiful people in my arms - honestly, some beautiful, lovely, brilliant people - and I am filled with regret that my awful self-hate drove them away.
— Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs
He was going to hurt the people he hated, but inside he didn't feel any real sense of satisfaction. He hated them all the more for having made him feel so small, so petty and mean, which was all he felt just then. But it wasn't enough to stop him.
— Riccardo Bruni, The Lion and the Rose
For a long time, Conor had known his father and Liam followed a stricter-than-average code, that their hate shone a little brighter than most, but until today, he’d never seen so clearly what fools they were and how blinded they’d become in their intolerance.
— Katherine McIntyre, Hunting for Spring
If the truth was equal to the lie, and our love was equal to our hatred, we would become absolutely nil persons.
— Marieta Maglas- Eschatological Regression
You do not have to provoke other people for them to provoke you, those who hate you will always get a way of blaming you.
— Auliq Ice
Hatred is a leech: The thing that sticks to a person's skin; that feeds off them and drains the sap out of one's spirit. It changes a person, and does not leave until it has sucked the last drop of peace from them.
— Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen
All religions, in their pure form, will tell you God is Love. And power, fear, division, judgment, oppression, hatred and self-righteousness are the opposite of Love. So going to war, for example, in the name of religion, is a complete contradiction. No pure religious leader would ever support this.
— The Truth
It occurred to Anita that hatred and dislike and even indifference were all luxuries, born of the mistaken belief that anything could last forever.
— Tommy Wallach, We All Looked Up
She saw the faces streaming past her, the faces made alike by fear—fear as a common denominator, fear of themselves, fear of all and of one another, fear making them ready to pounce upon whatever was held sacred by any single one they met... She had kept herself clean and free in a single passion—to touch nothing. She had liked facing them in the streets, she had liked the impotence of their hatred, because she offered them nothing to be hurt.
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
That's a rather subversive idea, isn't it? "Do you think so? I don't. If it is subversive, then everything else is too, even breathing. I feel and think as naturally and necessarily as I breathe. If men hate each other, then there is not hope. We will all be the victims of that hate. We will slaughter each other in wars we don't want and for which we're not responsible. They'll put a flag in front of us and fill ours ears with words. And why? To plant the seeds for a new war, to create more hatred, to create new flags and new words. Is that why we're here? To have children and hurl them into the fiery furnace? To build cities and then raze them to the ground? To long for peace and have war instead? "And would love solve everything," asked Able with a sad, slightly ironic smile. "I don't know. It's the only thing we haven't tried so far..." "And will we be in time?" "Possibly. If those who suffer can be convinced that it's true, then yes, we might be in time..." He paused, as if assailed by a sudden thought, "But don't forget, Abel, you must love with a love that is lucid and active! And make sure that the active side never forgets abut the lucid side and that the active side never commits the same kind of villainous deeds as those who want men to hate each other. Active, but lucid. And above all, lucid!
— José Saramago, Skylight
She saw the faces streaming past her, the faces made alike by fear—fear as a common denominator, fear of themselves, fear of all and of one another, fear making them ready to pounce upon whatever was held sacred by any single one they met...She had kept herself clean and free in a single passion—to touch nothing. She had liked facing them in the streets, she had liked the impotence of their hatred, because she offered them nothing to be hurt.
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
Success causes others to be jealous and hate.
— Sunday Adelaja
Despite what everyone thinks, hatred is what makes the world goes round not love. Just look at Hitler, he changed the world with his hatred so did Abraham Lincoln. He didn’t free the slaves out of love, he simply hated the Confederates so he did something to piss them off and win the war.
— Hermione Daguin, Behind every mean girl...There's a tragedy
Find an enemy for life and you've no more need of a doctor.
— Sascha Arango, The Truth and Other Lies
If I do not agree with something or do not like something, it will be wrong to presume that I hate it. Presuming disagreement or dislike to be the same as hatred is stifling engagement. Disengagement leads to otherness, which leads to fear, which in turn leads to real hatred. Either we tolerate disagreement and dislike or we have to tolerate real hatred. The intolerance of disagreement is filling civil society lexicon with phobias each of which is leading to a disconnect, to another closed door. It may sound odd but only tolerance of disagreement demolishes walls. Doors and windows, open or closed, presume that there exists a wall, a wall created by intolerance. And doors and windows, if they exist, are closed too easily, at the slightest of pretexts.
— R. N. Prasher
Let me hate you as passionately as I loved you.
— Kavita Kané, Sita's Sister
A defeat for humanity would be the failure to recognise the rights of two people who love each other.A defeat for humanity is that people accept such hatred and discrimination into their hearts.A defeat for humanity would be the failure of the church to recognise that nobody can control who a person loves.A victory for humanity would be the dissolution of a theocratic dystopia that promotes anti-equality (aka "the Vatican") which has no place in a modern society.
— Scott A. Butler
Any kind of hatred towards the opposite sex is a symptom of an unhealthy relationship with God.
— Nityananda Das, Divine Union
Sometimes, Arin almost understood what Kestrel had done. Even now, as he felt the drift of the boat and didn't fight its pull, Arin remembered the yearning in Kestrel's face whatever she'd mentioned her father. Like a homesickness. Arin had wanted to shake it out of her. Especially during those early months when she had owned him. He had wanted to force her to see her father for what he was. He had wanted her to acknowledge what she was, how she was wrong, how she shouldn't long for her father's love. It was soacked in blood. Didn't she see that? How could she not?Once, he'd hated her for it. Then it had somehow touched him. He knew it himself. He, too, wanted what he shouldn't. He, too, felt the heart chooses its own home and refuses reason. Not here, he'd tried to say. Not this. Not mine. Never. But he had felt the same sickness.In retrospect, Kestrel's role in the taking of the eastern plains was predictable. Sometimes he damned her for currying favor with the emperor, or blamed her playing war like a game just because she could. Yet he thought he knew the truth of her reasons. She'd done it for her father. It almost made sense. At least, it did when he was near sleep and his mind was quiet, and it was harder to help what entered. Right before sleep, he came close to understanding. But he was awake now.
— Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Crime
Hatred begins to emerge like love and it's not too far from love.
— Auliq Ice
If sensing so badly of yourself you also sense a need to make me sense that, then I sense sadly that you cannot make better sense … sadder still if you cannot sense my sincerity.
— Brian Spellman
…the most devastating thing Finney could have said. Not that Peter was hated by his father. But that he’d been loved all along. He’d interpreted kindness as cruelty, generosity as meanness, support as tethers. How horrible to have been offered love, and to have chosen hate instead. He’d turned heaven into hell.
— Louise Penny, A Rule Against Murder
But, in the end, a kiss is just a kiss; I have no time for love, or seasoned lips.
— Phar West Nagle
If love is what is held to make us immortal, hatred is the reverse.
— Rachel Cusk, Outline
Fear of nature led to society
—  hatred among men lead to culture
I love you, but I hate your overeating" doesn’t help a marriage. It's not helpful because hatred is a powerful emotion (a posture, really) that is not easy to wield or maintain carefully. Hatred is more a bludgeon than a scalpel. Our ability to distinguish sin from sinner, especially in others, is so limited, so vulnerable to our own unexamined subjectivity.
— Ken Wilson, A Letter to My Congregation: An evangelical pastor's path to embracing people who are gay, lesbian and transgender in the company of Jesus
HATRED is generally a product of fear, love is a unique product of creation. Communication and clearer thinking breaks down in fear. The attraction of "WISDOM"create the understanding and love of HUMANITY.
— Henry Johnson Jr
National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The world hates the truth and all that share it, and so if you share truth eventually you will be hated by the world if you are not ready.
— Auliq Ice
Telling the truth has always come naturally to me. And I realize, that people like me are the reason the world hates the truth.
— Auliq Ice
The truth is considered hatred by those who hate the truth.
— Auliq Ice
If you sense so badly that you also sense a need to make me sense that, then I sense sadly that you cannot make better sense ... sadder still if you cannot sense my sincerity.
— Brian Spellman
There's a reason that murderous hatred has to be taught--and not just taught, but forcibly implanted. It's not a naturally occurring phenomenon. It is a lie. It is a lie told over and over again--often to people who have no resources and who are denied alternative views of the world.
— Zak Ebrahim
Do not be surprised that the world hates you, the truth is coming from the atheists I know.
— Auliq Ice
The truth, when it matches with what we want, think, or believe already, we love it. But, when it doesn't, we either hate it or ignore it, or both.
— Auliq Ice
We must realize that the world cannot see and hear the truth neither are they therein sanctified, the world is on its own.
— Auliq Ice
Biblical Christianity doesn't fit the world's vision of global solidarity right now as there is a battle against Truth and the world hates that.
— Auliq Ice
I don't have the time or the energy to hate," says Shara. "I only wish to understand. People are what they are.
— Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs
Hatred may keep a body warm, but it takes a lot to keep the fire stoked, so unless a person is extraordinary in some way, some people are not worth hating, just like they’re not worth loving.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Deep within every blind, absolute love grows a hatred toward the beloved, who now holds the only existing key to happiness
— Peter Høeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow
Hate cannot live alone. It It must have love as a trigger, a goad, or a stimulant. Joe early developed a gentle protective love for Joe. He comforted and flattered and cherished Joe. He set up walls to save Joe from a hostile world. And Joe gradually became proof against wrong. If Joe got into trouble, it was because the world was in angry conspiracy against him. And if Joe attacked the world, it was revenge and they damn well deserved it - the sons of bitches. Joe lavished every care on his love, and he perfected a lonely set of rules which might have gone like this:1. Don't believe nobody. The bastards are after you.2. Keep your mouth shut. Don't keep your neck out. 3. Keep your ears open. When they make a slip, grab on to it and wait. 4. Everybody's a son of a bitch and whatever you do they got it coming.
— John Steinbeck
No more Keats, I entreat: flay him alive; if some of you don’t I must skin him myself: there is no bearing the drivelling idiotism of the Mankin.
— George Gordon Byron
As long love exist in this so do hatred
— Ak
And there was Ambrose. To deem us simply enemies is to lose the true flavours of our relationship. It was more like the two of us entered into a business partnership in order to more efficiently pursue our mutual interest of hating each other.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
Hatred is the price that society extracts from its leaders for the honour, power and wealth it bestows unto them.
— Awdhesh Singh, The Secret Red Book of Leadership
Hatred wants to annihilate, but it annihilates by destroying, by making our awareness dull, by suppressing, by dividing. True Nature does not really annihilate, because something is not wiping out something else--there is no duality. The kind of annihilation that True Nature makes possible is more of a recognition, a precise understanding that Being reveals in us. We have no inner agitation in our attitude; we see and understand whatever impediment is arising, but we do not give it energy in the form of reaction, and thus it becomes still on its own and does not appear. We experience this as a dissolving or a melting, but what is actually happening is that the energy fueling the obstacle disappears, the obstacle loses its dynamism, and it simply stops arising.
— A.H. Almaas
Because of propaganda induced cognitive dissonance, most people hate themselves and don't even know it.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes its mind. But hatred, now, that's something you can use. Sculpt. Wield. It's hard, or soft, however you need it. Love humiliates you, but Hatred cradles you.
— Janet Fitch, White Oleander
Love can be simply stated to be the desire of the human being to integrate oneself with other selves in such a way that one starts feeling the pain and pleasure of another person as if of one’s own. Hatred can be defined as just the opposite – to derive pleasure in the pain of others, while feeling unhappy seeing others happy
— Awdhesh Singh, Good and Evil: Two Sides of the Same Coin
If people have faith, peace prevails among them. There is no logic for peace. In fact, peace is the most illogical thing in this world. If we see inequality, injustice and poverty around the world, often we think—‘why people don’t fight for their rights?’ Peace is a miracle, which defies all logic. Political leaders are clever and they destroy peace by inventing logic that creates hatred. Even in war, the logic put forward by both the sides are totally contradictory, and both the sides feel that they are right.
— Awdhesh Singh, Good and Evil: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Demonise one of them and the sympathisers will melt away.
— Philippe Blenkiron, The Pustoy
I love Hitler for his leadership, but I abhor his actions.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Hatred becomes, within a given time, the hatred of society, then the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Before you speak words of hatred, so count with peace in your voice to ten.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, The Seven Deadly Sins
It takes courage to live in the midst of hate. And it requires strength to keep that hatred from eating your soul.
— Mari Serebrov, Mama Namibia
How his hatred seethed in search of a justifiable excuse.
— Norman Mailer, The Fight
Twinkle twinkle little star, I want to hit you with a car. Throw you off a bridge so high,Hope you break your neck and die.
— Katelyn Lillis
[Football] has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
— George Orwell, The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell 1903-1950
If you feel hatred in your heart, pray. If you feel murder in your mind, pray. God will repay.
— JCrov
Devil has to offer many diabolical grimaces: One of these caricatures is prejudice, it stirs up hatred.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann, The Seven Deadly Sins
If peace came it would have to do so when there had been time to allow the hatred to grow out of people’s thinking.
— Sara Sheridan, Truth Or Dare
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual fife upon another: each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his subject. Philosophically considered, therefore, the two passions seem essentially the same, except that one happens to be seen in a celestial radiance, and the other in a dusky and lurid glow.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
What worries me is that out of so much hatred for the military, out of fighting them so much and thinking about them so much, you've ended up as bad as they are. And no ideal in life is worth that much baseness.
— Gabriel García Márquez
Satan will not ask you to carry a chair and sit with him, instead he will snatch the chair from your hands and dismantle your body with it.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.
— George Orwell, 1984
But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
If love wasn't conditional, everybody would be in love with everybody.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
But you're so easy to sneak up on." He crossed his arms, leaning back against the wall. "You should be honored that I bother, since there's no challenge to it.""Right," I said dryly.Tybalt has never made a secret of his contempt for changelings in general and me in particular. Not even the years I spent missing could change that. If anything, it made things worse, because when I came back, I promptly removed myself from all the places he was accustomed to finding me. Hating me suddenly took effort - an effort he's proved annoying glad to make. On the other hand, it's actually been something of a relief, because it is something I can count on. Dawn comes, the moon rises and Tybalt hates me.
— Seanan McGuire, Rosemary and Rue
But hatred and rage solve nothing. Like a might fire, they quickly consume whatever is fed them.Yet it can't last. Soon enough, they devour all around them and burn out, leaving nothing but a hollowed shell no longer capable of feeling anything at all. (First Guardian)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Time Untime
I looked at her for three seconds, or five perhaps, with fearful hatred-that hate which is only a hair's-breath from love, from the maddest love!
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Seconds turn into minutes and minutes into hours. It is all still the same. Or it no longer is. If I were to ask what has changed, perhaps nothing, but conceivably everything would be the befitting reply. I no longer feel the same. Loss preceded me, alienating my soul from the body. I feel I am gliding through an alley making a journey from the known towards the unknown. There is a deep abyss inside where sometime back, my heart used to beat and a noisy, rusty old machine has replaced my mind; solitarily creating useless noise.I don’t remember what day it is and since when have I been lying here. It must have been yesterday… or was it day before. I cannot recollect anything except the dull throbbing pain inside my brain. I can see the time, almost 9: 45, difficult to say which time of the day it is. The bigger hand is soon going to overshadow the smaller hand. It looks like a game of cat and mouse; the bigger hand chasing the smaller one. Anyone stronger in terms of physical appearance, money, power, fame or name tramples upon the weak ones - that is the rule of the world. There are only two possible reasons behind it, love or hate. When you love someone you want to control everything that person does and hence, sometimes, knowingly or unknowingly you squash them like melons. While on the other hand in the case of hate, there is no need to specify the reason for walking over someone like that. Hate is a strong reason in itself. I am confused as to what crushed me, was it love or hate? I somehow don’t like the sound of it – love, it in itself smells of treachery, for love is not a pure emotion. Lust and hatred are the only pure emotions. Love is camouflaged, for needs and desires. Desires – they are magical in their own way. They can be innocent. They can be monstrous. But they exist, no matter what, and many such needs and desires make us helpless slaves of the same. We hide these desires either in the realms of our mind or in the dusty corners of our hearts for we are scared…what if someone finds out what we desire. We give them identities so as to not let the real thing show. The only thing visible on the front is a mask we wear to deceive people or that’s what I thought. For I was deceived while I believed I am the deceiver. Or was I not? I debated as my mind once again tried to enter a sleep-induced trance.
— Namrata, Time's Lost Atlas
Personal Assault and Battery breeds with no contraception a hateful vengeance for others
—  A sexual nature that is methodically breeding one's intolerance of Self
What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Black Orpheus
Now I know it’s because somewhere in my mind, I still harboured hatred and fear for that man, so it was just easier to erect the brick wall and never look back.
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!
— Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea
My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.
— Renata Adler, Speedboat
Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
In that time while he was still aware, which was the worse, I wonder: the agony of his physical torture or the horror of their utter hatred, of their moral certainty that he was so beyond the bounds of what they could accept that he deserved not just a death but one of such brutality, such inhumanity, as would make the seraphs who burned Sodom bow their heads in cold respect? What is it like, I wonder, to learn the full capacity of hatred in a lesson hammered home with bone broken on wood and skin ripped on barbed wire?
— Hal Duncan, Vellum
If someone asks me, “Why do you write?” I can reply by pointing out that it is a very dumb question. Nevertheless, there is an answer. I write because I hate. A lot. Hard. And if someone asks me the inevitable next dumb question, “Why do you write the way you do?” I must answer that I wish to make my hatred acceptable because my hatred is much of me, if not the best part. Writing is a way of making the writer acceptable to the world—every cheap, dumb, nasty thought, every despicable desire, every noble sentiment, every expensive taste.
— William H. Gass
If you give into hate, you'll destroy yourself. Hate doesn't help anything.
— Nathan Taffel, Stolen Childhood
Hatred, rancor and grudge, they are not humanity elements; but you need to have them to survive.
— M.F. Moonzajer
I hate Risk. I have for many years now. I hate that you still like Risk. I hate that you guilt me into playing with you because no one else will. I hate that you do the accents of the countries you’re attacking from. And I hate that you wear a beret every time we play. God, do I hate the beret.
— Colin Nissan
This is not the person I wanted to become: Hatred has carved a permanent place inside me, a hollow where things are so easily lost.
— Lauren Oliver, Requiem
Most people who spew hatred aren’t very intelligent or motivated. They tend to be lazy, and if for some reason they are coaxed into picking up a pen, their messages are mostly incoherent and largely illiterate.
— Damien Echols, Life After Death
I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform
—  I was on active duty all my time at school
Hatred makes you weak where else love makes you vulnerable. There's a difference.
— Girl234
Gandalf: Often does hatred hurt itself!
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. Every summit seems an exaggeration. Climbing wearies. The steepnesses take away one's breath; we slip on the slopes, we are hurt by the sharp points which are its beauty; the foaming torrents betray the precipices, clouds hide the mountain tops; mounting is full of terror, as well as a fall. Hence, there is more dismay than admiration. People have a strange feeling of aversion to anything grand. They see abysses, they do not see sublimity; they see the monster, they do not see the prodigy.
— Victor Hugo, Ninety-Three
And he wallowed in disgust and loathing, and his hair stood on end at the delicious horror.
— Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer
If you're in love, love to the limit; and if you hate, why hate like the devil and if it's a fight you're in, get where it's hottest and fight like hell - if you don't life's not worth the living.
— Abraham Grace Merritt, The Moon Pool
If there's no hatred in your heart, then your mind won't find fault with others.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Woodrow Wilson intimate Edward House urged that his boss never first be approached by argument. Instead, the President could be made most receptive by laying a groundwork of 'common hatred".
— David Pietrusza, 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
I meant that the hatred of that July day in Nashville was alive and well on that horrible day in Pittsburgh. People hate others so they strike like snakes. It’s all connected—we’re all connected, bumping around into each other, some of us good, some bad, most a mixture. Every thought acted upon has consequences. Every one.
— Laura Anderson Kurk, Glass Girl
Why do they hate us?" He paused. "We didn't do anything wrong.
— Shannon A. Thompson, November Snow
Don't waste hate on pink geranium.
— Elizabeth Goudge, The Little White Horse
I hate nobody except Hitler--and that is professional.
— Winston S. Churchill