Quotes about hate
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““Mental illness is often used as a rationale or label placed on hate crimes. In fact, it rarely is connected to one’s mental state, but instead, through hatred and other prejudicial mores established in early childhood.””

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

2013

Childhood

“He felt a killing hate for the stupid, ordinary, disapproving people who kept him from doing what he wanted to do.”

William S. Burroughs book Queer

Source: Queer: A Novel (1985), Chapter Nine

People, Stupidity

“Better to be hated for being true than to be loved for being false.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Meglio essere odiati per essere veri che essere amati per essere falsi.
Source: prevale.net

Love, Falseness

“There's nothing in this world so sweet as love, and next to love the sweetest thing is hate.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

Love, World

“And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

“But I loved that house, and I hated to say good-bye. Because, it was more than just a house. It was every summer, every boat ride, every sunset. It was Susannah.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

Love, Summer, Housing

“Next worst thing to unrequited Love, isn't it? Insufficient hate.”

Thomas Pynchon Mason & Dixon

Source: Mason & Dixon

Love

“And where love ends, hate begins”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Love

“There was much to hate in this world and too much to love.”

Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Love, World

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

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Variant: No one can hate you more than someone who used to love you.
Source: The Blood of Olympus

Love

“Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that.”

Louis-ferdinand Céline book Journey to the End of the Night

Source: Journey to the End of the Night

People

“Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

Love, Men, Fear, Hope

“Well, I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Clary to Jace, pg. 216
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

Death, Night

“If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.”

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

Variant: If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

Parent, For Parents

“Percy hated tests. Since he'd lost his memory, his whole life was one big fill-in-the-blank. He was _____, from _____. He felt like _____, and if the monsters caught him, he'd be _____.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Variant: Since Percy’d lost his memory, his whole life was one big fillin-the-blank. He was____________________, from____________________. He felt like
____________________, and if the monsters
caught him, he’d be____________________.
Source: The Son of Neptune

Life, Memory

“It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home

Women

“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…

Source: The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver

Love, Thinking

“There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate.”

Shannon Hale book Book of a Thousand Days

Source: Book of a Thousand Days

World, Personality

“I hate being told what to do! Especially by myself!”

Lynn Flewelling (1958) American writer

“How I hate everything!”

Edith Wharton Summer

Source: Summer

“This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate can give you a hard-on.”

John Irving book A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

Nature, Learning

“Jason hated being old.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Variant: Jason hated being an old man.
Source: The Blood of Olympus

“I hate you! (Artemis)
Don’t keep saying that, Artie. It’s cruel to get my hopes up. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dark Side of the Moon

Hope

“All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.”

James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright

"The Crow and the Scarecrow", The New Yorker (date unknown); Further Fables for Our Time (1956). This is derived from Oscar Wilde's statement "All men kill the thing they love..."
From Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time

Men

“What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.”

Carter G. Woodson (1875–1950) African-American historian and writer

World, History

“Believe it or not--it takes a lot of love to hate you like this.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

Love

“I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since. The whole thing was a failure.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

2000s, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century (2004)
Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

Failure

“Constipation was one of the things she hated most in the world, on par with despicable men who commit domestic violence and narrow-minded religious fundamentalists.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

Men, World

“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)

Speech in Ottawa (10 January 1946), published in Eisenhower Speaks : Dwight D. Eisenhower in His Messages and Speeches (1948) edited by Rudolph L. Treuenfels
1940s

War, Stupidity

“Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen,
who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat,
who never lived and yet outlived her time,
hating men and dogs and Democrats.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

Men, God, Dogs, Time

“I hate to be obvious," added the Scarecrow, "but you'd have saved yourself a heap of trouble if you weren't too cheap to invest in a leash, Dorothy.”

Gregory Maguire book Son of a Witch

Source: Son of a Witch

“He hated being filled with terror. It was embarrassing.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.”

Coretta Scott King (1927–2006) American author, activist, and civil rights leader. Wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.

As quoted in Understanding Cultural Diversity in Today's Complex World‎ (2006) by Leo Parvis, p. 54

“I hate you' she said to me one afternoon. 'I really, really hate you.' Call me sensitive, but I couldn't help but take it personally.”

David Sedaris book Me Talk Pretty One Day

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

Help, Personality

“All those months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he can see me for who I really am. Violent. Distrustful. Manipulative. Deadly.
And I hate him for it.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Katniss (p. 232)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)

“I hate France. It's like the whole country's on a diet”

Gordon Korman One False Note

Source: One False Note

Country

“Authority is never without hate.”

Euripidés Ion

Ion (c. 421-408 BC) as translated by Ronald F. Willetts

“I mean my characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They’re rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they lust; break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.”

Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) American author

From a letter to Harold Preece (c. January or February 1928)
Letters

Men

“And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.”

Henry James book The Portrait of a Lady

Source: The Portrait of a Lady

Love

“I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

Source: Living Loving and Learning

Love, Feeling, Strong

“The only person who suffers, when you squirrel alway all that hate, is you.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

Suffering, Personality

“Holding anger is a poison… It eats you from inside… We think that by hating someone we hurt them… But hatred is a curved blade… and the harm we do to others… we also do to ourselves.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Variant: Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

Thinking, Hurt, Anger

“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Variant: But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.
Source: Persuasion

Women, Water, For women

“Where’s a friggin’ rocket when you need it? Ah, crap, Jaden, stop with the pollen. I hate that. Yeah, taste honey, you punk! (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

“Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.”

James M. Cain book The Postman Always Rings Twice

Source: The Postman Always Rings Twice

Love, Fear

“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 book Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“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

Source: The Woman Destroyed

Love

“I hate ordinary people!”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

People

“Look, I asked you here for a reason. Much as I hate to admit it, vampire, we have something in common."
"Totally awesome hair?" Simon suggested.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“When I took the pills, I wanted to kill someone I hated. I didn't know that other Veronikas existed inside me, Veronikas that I could love.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

Love

“Go without hate, but not without rage. Heal the world.”

Paul Monette (1945–1995) American writer

World, Rage

“Cucumber and bergamot," Clary said. "Is there anything else you hate that I ought to know about?"

Jace looked at Dorothea over the rim of his teacup. "Liars," he said.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“He's a boy, Kat. I hate to break it to you, but we are fundamentally different.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Perfect Scoundrels

Boy

“Hate is too big of burden to bear. I have decided to love.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

Love

“I'm running on hate.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars… Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. book Strength to Love

This passage contains some phrases King later used in "Where Do We Go From Here?" (1967) which has a section below. 1950s, Loving Your Enemies (Christmas 1957) Variant: Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that. Source: Mentioned in "Out of Osama's Death, a Fake Quotation Is Born" by Megan McArdle, The Atlantic (May 2011) http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/05/out-of-osamas-death-a-fake-quotation-is-born/238220/, and widely distributed on twitter http://twitter.com/#!/jmadly/status/65314784136011776 as a quote of King, after the death of Osama bin Laden, the first sentence is one written by Jessica Dovey http://i.imgur.com/cqtjw.jpg on her Facebook page, which became improperly combined by others with genuine statements of King, whom she quoted, and which occur in Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 5 : Loving your enemies, and in Where Do We Go from Here : Chaos or Community? (1967), p. 62. For the full story see "Anatomy of a Fake Quotation" by Megan McArdle, The Atlantic (May 3, 2011) http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/05/anatomy-of-a-fake-quotation/238257/ and for the Facebook version of the quote see Did Martin Luther King, Jr. say that “I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy”? at skeptics.stackexchange.com http://skeptics.stackexchange.com. Context: Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. Context: Let us move now from the practical how to the theoretical why: Why should we love our enemies? The first reason is fairly obvious. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. So when Jesus says "love your enemies," he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition. Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies-or else? The chain reaction of evil-Hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars-must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. Context: I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

Love, Star, Night, Peaceful

“She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the way he sat and moved and wore his clothes—she was conscious that even these trivial things were inwoven with her deepest life.”

Edith Wharton book The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

Life, Way, Light, Clothes

“She hated their new nickname. It made them sound like deranged Barbie dolls.”

Sara Shepard (1973) Author

Source: Heartless

“I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.”

Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer

Comedy album A Wild and Crazy Guy

“You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.”

Sinclair Lewis book Babbitt

Source: Babbitt

Thinking

“He hates me more," says Peeta. "I don't think people in general are his sort of thing.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

People, Thinking

“I hate when I'm an idiot and I don't know it. I like to be aware of my idiocy, to really revel in it, take pictures.”

Catherine Clark (1976) Canadian journalist

“F**k them is what I say. I hate those ebooks. They can not be the future. They may well be. I will be dead. I won't give a s**t.”

Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) American illustrator and writer of children's books

Future, Dead

“I remember that my mother had once told me that the opposit of love isn't hate, it's indifference.”

Emily Giffin Something Borrowed

Variant: I remember that my mother once told me that the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.
Source: Something Borrowed

Love, Indifference

“He hated when his own advice applied to himself.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

“Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.”

George Gordon Byron Don Juan

Source: Don Juan

“I'd hate to have a kid like me.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes
Source: The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

“I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it.”

William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer

The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)

“Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other.”

Jodi Picoult book Lone Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf

Love, Feeling

“The next minute or so was spent howling on the ceiling. Imp No.1 joined in, but he wasn't really feeling it. It shouldn't be "Who do we hate?", he thought, it really should be "whom", but this probably wasn't a good time to bring that up.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Feeling, Time

“Being a stranger was like being dead,
and brought to mind how, in a book he had read
that most folks misunderstood one common state:
The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.”

David Rakoff (1964–2012) writer

Source: Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish

Love, Books, Reading, Dead

“He says, "I have loved you since the first moment I saw you. I wanted you then, and when I thought you didn't want me, I turned my love into hate."

"Ethan…" Before I say another word his mouth comes down over mine and he kisses me.”

Marianne Curley book The Key

Source: The Key

Love, Kiss

“Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

Love, Men, Soul, Wealth

“What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet?

Love isn't the only word that fails.

Hate does, too.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

Love

“I hate you! (Artemis)
Oh, please don’t get my hopes up. You almost gave me a hard-on with that thought. At least tell me this time your hatred will last more than five minutes. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

Hope, Time

“I don't mind being called a liar. I am. I am a marvelous liar. But I hate being called a liar when I´m telling the perfect truth.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Truth, Perfection

“When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and despair, all the love in the world will not wholly take away that knowledge. Though it may turn darkened eyes for a while to the light, and teach faith where no faith was.”

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

Love, World, Faith, Knowledge

“They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.”

William Golding book Lord of the Flies

Source: Lord of the Flies

Love

“It'd be better if he were easier to hate.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“Don't hate me forever, Arty," whispered Holly. "I couldn't bear that.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Last Guardian

“I hate clowns. You can't see what they're thinking.”

Geraldine McCaughrean book Peter Pan in Scarlet

Source: Peter Pan in Scarlet

Thinking

“We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted

Love, Pain, War, World

“I hate to complain… No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.”

Abigail Adams (1744–1818) 2nd First Lady of the United States (1797–1801)

Life, Shoe, Personality

“Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.”

Charles Baudelaire book Les Fleurs du mal

Source: Les Fleurs du Mal

Love, Passion

“Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Hurt

“In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love, but dispassionate and icily rational.”

Ian McEwan book Atonement

Source: Atonement

Love, Feeling

“It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared.”

Jack Kerouac book Big Sur

Source: Big Sur

Love, World

“The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.”

Steven Pressfield (1943) United States Marine

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Learning, Envy

“You hate change. I hate it too. But things can't stay the same- and that's well, for when nothing changes in your life, it's as good as being dead”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Hero of Ages

Life, Change, Dead

“Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.”

Graham Greene (1904–1991) English writer, playwright and literary critic

Men, Disappointment, Selfishness

“I hated labels anyway. People didn’t fit in slots—prostitute, housewife, saint—like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Variant: I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.
Source: White Oleander

People, Fear, Water

“Hate is by far the greatest pleasure; men love in haste, but detest in leisure.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

Love, Men, Pleasure