“Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?”

“Hatred is a disguised form of love. You can only hate someone whom you really wish to love, because if you were totally indifferent to that person, you could not even get up enough energy to hate him.”

Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) Indian writer and guru

“Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them.”

Elvis Presley (1935–1977) American singer and actor

“The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.”

Barry Hughart book Bridge of Birds

“Growing up in a home of abuse, you struggle with the notion that you can love a person you hate, or hate a person you love. It’s a strange feeling. You want to live in a world where someone is good or bad, where you either hate them or love them, but that’s not how people are.”

Trevor Noah book Born a Crime

“You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them.”

Hanif Kureishi (1954) English playwright, screenwriter, novelist

“When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.”

E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…

“I want to talk about love. Loving someone…I mean really loving someone…means you are willing to admit that the person you love is not what you first fell in love with, not the image you first had; and you must be able to like them still for being as close to that image as they are, and avoid disliking them for being so far away.”

Samuel R. Delany (1942) American author, professor and literary critic

“To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) Russian author

“Loving, we've been loving, but sometimes hate is better
You can't keep out the killers with love, man
Hating, we've been hating, but only love can heal up the hate ~ Nightfriends”

Steve Kilbey (1954) British artist