Quotes about hate
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“See the moon? It hates us.”

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

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

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

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“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

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

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Fall of Night

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

Source: Slam

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“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

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

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

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

Bryan Lee O'Malley (1979) Artist

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

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“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)

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“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.

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“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)

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

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

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“He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away.”

Source: Heart of Darkness

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“Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.”

Joni Eareckson Tada (1949) American artist

Source: The God I Love

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“The opposite of love isn't hate; it's indifference”

Steven Pressfield (1943) United States Marine

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

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“How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.”

Dave Eggers (1970) memoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher

Source: You Shall Know Our Velocity!

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“We don't stop loving people just because we hate them, but we don't stop hating them either.”

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

Source: One Last Thing Before I Go

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“Contemporary art hates you.”

John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer
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“We all eventually become whatever we pretend to hate.”

Chuck Klosterman (1972) Author, Columnist

Source: I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains

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