Quotes about hate
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“There’s nothing worse than falling in love with a person over and over every time you lay eyes on them, especially when you hate their goddamn guts”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

Love, Time, Personality

“The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.”

Tess Gerritsen book The Surgeon

Source: The Surgeon

Love, Pain, People, Feeling

“I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed and mean and the petty. I hate all ordinary dull little people who aren't ashamed of being dull and little.”

John Fowles book The Collector

Source: The Collector

People

“It doesnt always help us to love the world, but it does prevent us from hating the world.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Love, World, Help

“See the moon? It hates us.”

Donald Barthelme (1931–1989) American writer, editor, and professor

“Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.”

Peter de Vries (1910–1993) American editor and novelist

Universe

“If you hate your life, you haven't' seen enough of it. If you hate your life, it's because your life is too small and doesn't' fit you.”

Augusten Burroughs (1965) American writer

Source: This Is How: Surviving What You Think You Can't

Life

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. To be in the window and watch people being sent to concentration camps or being attacked in the street and do nothing, that's being dead.”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

US News & World Report (27 October 1986)

Love, Life, Death, People

“It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots." - Katniss.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Variant: Its hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots.
Source: The Hunger Games

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.”

W.C. Fields (1880–1946) actor

Funny

“So if the world hates us, we take courage that it hated Jesus first. If you're wondering whether you'll be safe, just look at what they did to Jesus and those who followed him. There are safer ways to live than by being a Christian.”

Shane Claiborne The Irresistible Revolution

Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

World, Way, Courage

“I hate this guy,” Ari muttered, keeping his head down
“There’s a club,” I told him. “The Haters of ter Borcht Club. Have you gotten your badge yet?”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Guy

“I hate news and information and anything that threatens to puncture the bubble of oblivion in which I live.”

Augusten Burroughs (1965) American writer

Source: Magical Thinking: True Stories

“In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.”

Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Source: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Love

“I try to have reasonably happy endings because I would hate any child to be cast down in gloom and despair; I want to show them you can find a way out of it.”

Jacqueline Wilson (1945) novelist

Happiness, Way, Despair

“And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody."
"And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Smile

“That which the fascists hate, above all else, is intelligence.”

Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher

Intelligence

“She hated her job the same way I hated my jobs because she knew she was worth more, but she also hated herself so there wasn't much point in trying to do better.”

Tawni O'Dell book Back Roads

Source: Back Roads

Way

“Look, I hate good-byes, too. But sometimes, we need them just to survive.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Fall of Night

“You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy; but take care you don't rouse my hate instead. And when you have once extinguished my love, you will find it no easy matter to kindle it again.”

Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXVII : Misdemeanour; Helen to Arthur

Love, Jealousy, Thinking

“The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

Life, Feeling

“Men have committed the greatest crime against women. Insidiously, violently, they have led them to hate women, to be their own enemies, to mobilize their immense strength against themselves, to be the executants of their virile needs.”

Hélène Cixous (1937) French philosopher and writer

Source: The Laugh of the Medusa

Women, Men

“Thank Ra!” She exclaimed.
“Yeah, I’m alive.”
“No, I almost jumped in after you. I hate the water!”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Water

“I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

People, Problem

“Don't ever ask me again if I hate living anywhere with you and Jasmina. This Rock reminds me of the boy I was and being with you in the palace reminds me of the man I want to be.'

'Not just any man,' she whispered. 'A King. Mine.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Froi of the Exiles

Boy

“Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.”

Joan D. Vinge The Snow Queen

Source: The Snow Queen

Love, Universe, Chance, Indifference

“Hate Scars. I'm physically flawless-why can't everyone be? Everywhere Lothaire went, people stopped and stared. Of course, then they usually ran. Lothair Enemy of Old”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior

People

“I’ll distract them,” Carter said. “You search. The Trophy room is through there.”
“Carter!”
But the fool ran off to protect me. I hate when he does that.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Fools, Search

“… hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him.”

John Updike book Rabbit, Run

Source: Rabbit, Run

Forgiveness

“You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

Love

“We're all one thing, like cells in a body. 'Cept we can't see the body. The way fish can't see the ocean. And so we envy each other. Hurt each other. Hate each other. How silly is that? A heart cell hating a lung cell.”

Charlie Kaufman (1958) American screenwriter

Source: Adaptation.: The Shooting Script

Way, Fish, Heart, Envy

“I hate time. It never does what you want it to.”

Nick Hornby book Slam

Source: Slam

Time

“I can't hate people that much. Don't get me wrong. I want to murder every last Keeper I can find. But that's not hate. That's vengeance.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Slays

People

“Anyone can be crazy. That's usually just because there's something screwed up in your wiring, you know? But suicide is a whole different thing. I mean, how much do you have to hate yourself to want to just wipe yourself out?”

Michael Thomas Ford (1968) American writer

Source: Suicide Notes

Suicide

“I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.”

Tanith Lee (1947–2015) British writer

Source: Wolf Star

Way, Behavior

“I hate it when men go to strip bars. It lowers the rest of us that know if a man has to pay to see a woman naked, he is a loser and probably should get weeded out.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Source: Solipsist

Men

“For men love what they cannot have, and hate what they cannot control.”

Robin Maxwell (1948) American writer

Source: The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn

Love, Men

“The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong."”

Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986) American journalist

Pieces of Eight (1982)
Source: Pieces Of Eight

Love, World

“Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.”

Kenneth Grahame book The Wind in the Willows

Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 3

“Every person professes to love good and hate evil, but in his actions his real preferences emerges.”

Piers Anthony Bearing an Hourglass

Source: Bearing an Hourglass

Love, Evil, Personality

“I don’t hate hardly ever, and when I love, I love for miles and miles. A love so big it should either be outlawed or it should have a capital and its own currency.”

Carrie Fisher book Shockaholic

Source: Shockaholic

Love

“If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.”

Jasper Fforde book The Big Over Easy

Source: The Big Over Easy

Art, Passion, Science

“I stop paying attention because as much as I love beauty, I hate stupidity, and seeing the two combined pisses me off.”

Tucker Max I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

Source: I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

Love, Stupidity, Beauty

“Let's be friends based on mutual hate.”

Bryan Lee O'Malley (1979) Artist

Source: Scott Pilgrim, Volume 3: Scott Pilgrim & The Infinite Sadness

“I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes—and six months later you have to start all over again.”

Joan Rivers (1933–2014) American comedian, actress, and television host

As quoted in Women Talk, edited by Michèle Brown & Ann OʼConnor (1984)

“Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March)”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Thinking, Hurt

“She is fine. She hates us both but it really didn't sound like anything else was wrong”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“That was other thing I hated about kids; they always said the exact things that deep down you already knew, would never admit, and most certainly never wanted to hear.”

Cecelia Ahern book A Place Called Here

Source: A Place Called Here

“If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 13.

Men

“And the scary thing I have noticed is that some people really feel uncomfortable around women who don’t hate themselves. So that’s why you need to be a little bit brave.”

Mindy Kaling book Why Not Me?

Source: Why Not Me?

Women, People, Feeling

“This is making me crazy. I hate relying on other people to save me, I hate being clingy, I hate it, and every time you show up, I lean on you. - Matilda Scarlet Veronica Betty Vilma Goodnight”

Jennifer Crusie (1949) American writer

Source: Faking It

People, Time

“Evie didn’t mind yelling, but she hated feeling judged. It got under her skin and made her feel small and ugly and unfixable.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

Feeling

“I hate it when you answer a question with a question."
"No you don't, you think it's charming.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Question, Thinking

“If we hadn't hated him a lot, we might have liked him a little at that moment. But we did. So we didn't.”

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young

“Angus looked at Hamish. "I hate it when Mom and Dad fight."
Hamish smoothed his brother's messy hair. "Me too.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Uncommon Criminals

Moms, Fight

“That's the thing about people who think they hate computers … What they really hate are lousy programmers.”

Larry Niven book Oath of Fealty

Oath of Fealty (1982) (co-written with Jerry Pournelle)

People, Thinking

“She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference.”

Susan Wiggs (1958) American writer

Source: Summer by the Sea

Love, Pain, Indifference

“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet

Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)

Love, Religion

“Already Roland feels his limbs starting to go numb. He swallows hard.
"I hate this. I hate you. I hate all of you."
"I understand.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

Feeling, Understanding

“If it's easy to be friendly she will be. If the wind blows the other way her friendship will be gone. And I'm thinking the wind is blowing the other way. She has found some other way to be an important person in her own right by hating others.”

Charlaine Harris book All Together Dead

Source: All Together Dead

Friendship, Way, Thinking, Personality

“I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

“Love and hate had their own secret languages, and Mark and Kieran were speaking in them now.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Love, Secret

“Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

Love, Heart

“Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.”

Herman Melville book Moby-Dick

Source: Moby Dick

Hell, Heart

“There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.”

Frank Serafini (1945) American politician

Children, Books, Reading

“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be co-workers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right. Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy and transform our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.”

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

1960s, Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Context: I had also hoped that the white moderate would reject the myth concerning time in relation to the struggle for freedom. I have just received a letter from a white brother in Texas. He writes: "All Christians know that the colored people will receive equal rights eventually, but it is possible that you are in too great a religious hurry. It has taken Christianity almost two thousand years to accomplish what it has. The teachings of Christ take time to come to earth." Such an attitude stems from a tragic misconception of time, from the strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually, time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively. More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be co-workers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right. Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy and transform our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

Men, God, People, Democracy