“Not only are love and hate such closely related emotions, but it's a lot easier to hate someone you've cared about than someone you never have.”

“It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people.”

Bette Davis (1908–1989) film and television actress from the United States

“It is so tiring to hate someone you love.”

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist

“No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

“There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”

Shmuley Boteach (1966) American Orthodox rabbi and writer

“Donald Rumsfeld. Love him or hate him, you've gotta admit: a lot of people hate him.”

Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian

“That thing doesn’t care about you. It won’t reward you when you take risks. It is simply indifferent. That’s the fact about it that most never learn. They hate it and fear it and finally ignore it. Because of that. It would be easier if it hated us. Maybe even if it hunted us. But it doesn’t care. Remember.”

Gregory Benford (1941) Science fiction author and astrophysicist

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

Hanif Kureishi (1954) English playwright, screenwriter, novelist

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

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

“This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated