quotations about hate
When you really know somebody you can't hate them. Or maybe it's just that you can't really know them until you stop hating them.
ORSON SCOTT CARD
Speaker for the Dead
Hatreds are the chimneys of the mind, serving to carry off the smoke of its pestilent humors.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them, because we hate them.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is quiet.
JOHANN PAUL FRIEDRICH RICHTER
Hesperus
When our hatred is too keen it places us beneath those we hate.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking.
CYRIL CONNOLLY
The Unquiet Grave
Hate is like a swordfish,
working through water invisibly
and then you see it coming
with blood along its blade,
but transparency disarms it.
PABLO NERUDA
Autumn Testament
Hatred is the anger of the weak.
ALPHONSE DAUDET
Lettres de mon Moulin
Take care that no one hate you justly.
SYRUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
In all our hating there is a vast amount of egotism. If we could forget ourselves we should instantly forget our hating. We know of people who have done others injustice and who are consequently hated by those people. But we don't necessarily hate them or feel any resentment. It is only when the injury becomes our injury that we subject ourselves to torment. For this reason alone we ought to see what a small personal thing hate is and what an unwise indulgence.
JOHN DANIEL BARRY
"Hating", Reactions and Other Essays Discussing Those States of Feeling and Attitude of Mind That Find Expression In Our Individual Qualities
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immutable law.
JAMES BALDWIN
Notes of a Native Son
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
FRANK HERBERT
Dune
Flat or round, there has always been hate in the world.
TANITH LEE
Night's Master
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.
DAVID MITCHELL
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Now I am silent, hate
Up to my neck,
Thick, thick.
I do not speak.
SYLVIA PLATH
Ariel
Hatred unlocks no doors in heaven.
WILLIAM F. DEVAULT
"idol of Clay"
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
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
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Jane Eyre