“Do you hate me so much?” “no, I can’t hate you. I wish I could, but I can’t””
Alice Borchardt (1939–2007) American fiction writer
Devoted
Source: Oh My Goth
“Do you hate me so much?” “no, I can’t hate you. I wish I could, but I can’t””
Alice Borchardt (1939–2007) American fiction writer
Devoted
Cyril Connolly book The Unquiet Grave
Part III: La Clé des Chants (p.103)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)
Context: There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, our popularity, our vanity and our dreams and plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may be able to cease from hating. Analyse in this way the hatred of ideas or of the kind of people whom we have once loved and whose faces are preserved in Spirits of Anger. Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.
Cyril Connolly book The Unquiet Grave
Part III: La Clé des Chants (p.103)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)
Context: There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, our popularity, our vanity and our dreams and plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may be able to cease from hating. Analyse in this way the hatred of ideas or of the kind of people whom we have once loved and whose faces are preserved in Spirits of Anger. Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.
“You can’t hate change. It’s like hating life.”
Paul J. McAuley (1955) British writer
In Jonathan Strahan (ed.) Drowned Worlds (e-book edition, ISBN 978-1-84997-930-6)
Short fiction, Elves of Antarctica (2016)
“I hate feelings. Why does sobriety have to come with feelings?”
Augusten Burroughs (1965) American writer
“They just hated and feared us because our government hated and feared them.”
Cory Doctorow (1971) Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author
Source: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Moon (2014), p. 154
Bernard Cornwell (1944) British writer
General Thomas Graham and Captain Richard Sharpe, p. 126
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Fury (2006)
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
She said softly, “I have tried not to love you and, as you see, I have failed.”
Source: Empire novels (1950–1952), The Stars, Like Dust (1951), Chapter 19 “Defeat!” (p. 163)
“I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.”
Akira Kurosawa (1910–1998) Japanese film maker