quotations about hate
My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard on the millions of people who hate you for what you are and you're likely to turn into one of those unkempt, sloppy dressers who sag beneath the weight of the two hundred political buttons they wear pinned to their coats and knapsacks.
DAVID SEDARIS
Naked
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
1957
Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
AMY LOWELL
"The Revenge", The New Republic, July 12, 1922
Blunted unto goodness is the heart which anger never stirreth,
But that which hatred swelleth, is keen to carve out evil.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER
Proverbial Philosophy
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
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
Heav'nly love shall outdo Hellish hate.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
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
Hatred is night; kindness is day.
SUHRAWARDI
attributed, Day's Collacon
If I wanted to punish an enemy, it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody.
HANNAH MORE
Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More
Hate engenders hate. Hate spreads to nations, and from this cause we have devastating wars. In the contemplation of these wars and their origins there is something humiliating to our human race. No Hymn of Hate can ever be a paean of humanity.
ARTHUR ALFRED LYNCH
Moods of Life
Now I am silent, hate
Up to my neck,
Thick, thick.
I do not speak.
SYLVIA PLATH
Ariel
You never really hate anyone as much as someone you cared about once.
CASSANDRA CLARE
City of Glass
Hatred unlocks no doors in heaven.
WILLIAM F. DEVAULT
"idol of Clay"
Hatred makes us all ugly.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON
Burnt Offerings
Hating is wasteful and absurd. But there are people we can't get along with, hateful people, perhaps people that hate us for no reason in the world or people that annoy us or draw us into quarreling. Isn't it better for us to keep out of the way? Often we find people taking this line of thought. As a rule it is self-deceptive. Surely it is better for us to keep out of the way of those we can't get along with. But when we meet them there is only one thing for us to do, to treat them courteously, to be careful not to let them see that we are suspicious of them or in any way unfriendly. We must actually take toward them a kindly attitude. We must realize that their faults belong to the huge family of faults from which we ourselves make a generous draft.
JOHN DANIEL BARRY
"Hating", Reactions and Other Essays Discussing Those States of Feeling and Attitude of Mind That Find Expression In Our Individual Qualities
If you must hate a man for the many things about which you disagree, remember that you should also love him for the many things about which you agree.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
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
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