Quotes about hate
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Source: Queer: A Novel (1985), Chapter Nine
“Better to be hated for being true than to be loved for being false.”
Original: Meglio essere odiati per essere veri che essere amati per essere falsi.
Source: prevale.net
“And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.”
Source: I Capture the Castle
“Next worst thing to unrequited Love, isn't it? Insufficient hate.”
Source: Mason & Dixon
“There was much to hate in this world and too much to love.”
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you.”
Variant: No one can hate you more than someone who used to love you.
Source: The Blood of Olympus
“Well, I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death.”
Clary to Jace, pg. 216
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
“If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.”
Variant: If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
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
Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home
“When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.”
Source: The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver
Source: Book of a Thousand Days
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)”
Source: Dark Side of the Moon
“All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.”
"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
“Believe it or not--it takes a lot of love to hate you like this.”
Source: I Am the Messenger
“I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since. The whole thing was a failure.”
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
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
“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.”
As quoted in Understanding Cultural Diversity in Today's Complex World (2006) by Leo Parvis, p. 54
Katniss (p. 232)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)
From a letter to Harold Preece (c. January or February 1928)
Letters
“And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.”
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
“The only person who suffers, when you squirrel alway all that hate, is you.”
Source: The Storyteller
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)
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
“Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.”
Source: The Postman Always Rings Twice
“It is so tiring to hate someone you love.”
Source: The Woman Destroyed
“Go without hate, but not without rage. Heal the world.”
“He's a boy, Kat. I hate to break it to you, but we are fundamentally different.”
Source: Perfect Scoundrels
“Hate is too big of burden to bear. I have decided 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.
Source: The House of Mirth
“She hated their new nickname. It made them sound like deranged Barbie dolls.”
Source: Heartless
“I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.”
Comedy album A Wild and Crazy Guy
“I remember that my mother had once told me that the opposit of love isn't hate, it's indifference.”
Variant: I remember that my mother once told me that the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.
Source: Something Borrowed
“I'd hate to have a kid like me.”
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.”
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
“Don't hate me forever, Arty," whispered Holly. "I couldn't bear that.”
Source: The Last Guardian
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
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
“Hate is by far the greatest pleasure; men love in haste, but detest in leisure.”
Source: Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
Clary, pg. 444
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
“Two farewell gifts," Sadie muttered, "from two gorgeous guys. I hate my life.”
Source: The Throne of Fire
“it was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.”