Quotes about hate
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“It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.”

Source: East of Eden

“I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Love, Suicide, Painting

“I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy.”

Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2

Love, Dreams

“Well. Like I said, I dont want to fight anymore. I dont want us to hate each other. And… well… I squeezed my eyes shut and then opened them. No matter how I fee about us… I want you to be happy”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

Happiness, Fight

“Fool! You may hate me… But I… I haven't stopped thinking of you for a single day.”

Rumiko Takahashi (1957) manga artist

Source: InuYasha: Stolen Spirit

Fools, Thinking

“To deem us simply enemies is to lose the true flavor of our relationship. It was more like the two of us entered into a business partnership in order to more efficiently pursue our mutual interest of hating each other.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

Business, Partnership

“Well, I hate to tell you this," she said, "but your friend is an asshole."
"He's not my friend," said Simon. "And I couldn't agree with you more, actually."
-Maia & Simon about Jace, pg.49-”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

Love

“O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams
That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.”

John Milton book Paradise Lost

Source: Paradise Lost

Sun

“Jason settled back on the bench. 'I hate to break this to you, but as a rule, wizards are nasty people. They're powerful, capricious, ruthless, egotistical, used to getting their own way. That's being kind.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

People, Way

“There are two types of people in this world. People who hate clowns… and clowns. (Bobby Pendragon)”

D.J. MacHale The Quillan Games

Variant: There are two types of people in this world. People who hate clowns... and clowns. -Bobby Pendragon
Source: The Quillan Games

People, World

“Advice for a human

86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances, so does indifference. It is a disease. Immunize yourself with art. And love.”

Matt Haig (1975) British writer

Source: The Humans

Love, Disease, Art, Passion

“The only person we'll hate more than each other is ourselves.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

Personality

“For a short time, I hated them. But when you think about it, what good does that do? It takes so much to hold on to hate—you lose your grip on what's important, you know?”

Harlan Coben book Caught

Source: Caught

Thinking, Time

“I don't understand my feelings. I really don't. I don't understand how I could hate you so much after so much time. How, no matter how much I'd like to not hate you, I hate you even more. It grows.”

Sam Shepard Fool for Love

Source: Fool for Love

Feeling, Understanding, Time

“You know, I really hate Romans, but I have to say their descendants make one fine automobile. (Kyrian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

“I hated every minute of it. But I said to myself, 'Suffer now, and live the rest of your life as a champion.”

Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist

On training, as quoted in "Ali: Born Again!" by Pete Axthelm and Peter Bonventre, Newsweek (25 September 1978)

Life, Suffering

“There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”

Shmuley Boteach (1966) American Orthodox rabbi and writer

Love, Relationship

“Isabelle and Sebastian? Hardly. Sebastian’s a nice guy – Isabelle only likes dating thoroughly inappropriate boys our parents will hate. Mundanes, Downworlders, petty crooks…”
“Thanks,” Simon said. “I’m glad to be classed with the criminal element.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Guy, Boy, Parent

“Another dream. Another long-distance call on my phantom party line. No wonder i had steadfastly refused to have dreams for most of my life. So stupid; such pointless, obvious symbols. Totally uncontrollable anxiety soup, hateful, blatant nonsense.”

Jeff Lindsay book Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Life, Stupidity, Dreams

“Samuel: What's a misanthrope?
Two Bob: A misanthrope is a bugger who hates every other bugger.
Samuel: Are we misanthropes?
Arthur: Lord no! We're family.”

Nick Cave (1957) Australian musician

Family

“Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

Life, People, Books, Fear

“Once a guy starts using a wig, he has to keep using one. It's, like, his fate. That's why wig makers make such huge profits. I hate to say it, but they're like drug dealers.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Fate, Guy

“A question I've thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love.”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Love, Question

“it's good to have things done with
when they don't work
it's also good not to hate
or even forget
the person you've failed with.”

Charles Bukowski book Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

Source: Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

Personality, Forgetting

“hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!”

Eric Jerome Dickey (1961) American author

Source: Liar's Game

“I don’t understand hate. I’ve seen its power. I’ve known its wrath. I’ve even felt it coursing through my veins, pushing me on. But I don’t know where it comes from or why it lasts, how it can take hold in some people and grow.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: United We Spy

People, Understanding

“They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America.”

Stephen King book Carrie

Source: Carrie

School, Star

“Go away. I hate everyone right now, and I'm pretty sure that includes you.”

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

“I hate women who complain about being fat when they're like a size 5. Anything under size 5 isn't a woman. It's a boy with breasts.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Obsidian Butterfly

Source: Obsidian Butterfly

Women, Boy

“You hated my rainbows, now you don't like my leather. Is there anything you like on me?”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Dreamfever

“Standing there, I loved myself and I hated myself. That's what the black Mary did to me, made me feel my glory and my shame at the same time.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

Love, Feeling, Time

“I hate to tell you this,” Jason said, “but I think your leopard just ate a goddess.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

Thinking

“Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

As quoted in The Films of Barbra Streisand (2001) by Christopher Nickens and Karen Swenson
Variant: Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

People, Way, Success, Envy

“One's character is set at an early age. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life. I hate to see you swim out so far you can't swim back.”

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

Source: Flipped

Life, Age

“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”

George Lucas (1944) American film producer

Source: Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace

Fear, Suffering, Anger

“He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.”

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

Source: Wuthering Heights

Love

“Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.”

Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

People, Fear

“Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.”

Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ch 43
Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

World, Fight

“I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Castle in the Air

Source: Castle Series, Castle in the Air (1990), p. 31.
Context: "Maybe," he said, "you should be more careful about whom you let your dog bite."
"Not I!" said Jamal. "I am a believer of free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so."

Dogs

“Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.”

Milan Kundera book Immortality

Source: Immortality

“I have never learned to hate. Don't let my first lesson come from you.”

Susan Carroll (1952) American writer

Learning

“Today we love what tomorrow we hate,
today we seek what tomorrow we shun,
today we desire what tomorrow we fear,
nay, even tremble at the apprehensions of.”

Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) English trader, writer and journalist

Love, Fear

“My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me……..”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Katniss (pp. 8)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)
Context: My Name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in The Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me. Peeta was taken prisoner. He is thought to be dead. Most likely he is dead. It is probably best if he is dead...

Hunger, Home, Game

“If I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation.”

Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XVII : Further Warnings; Helen to Mrs. Maxwell

Love

“I hate Brooklyn.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“You know something, Jacob, I'd hate to be as smart as Jonh. I mean he was really, really smart, and to be that smart means you know all the answers, and when you know all the answers there's no room for dreaming.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

Dreams

“I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.”

Orson Welles (1915–1985) American actor, director, writer and producer

Idea, Thinking, Passion, Time

“I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.”

Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World

Source: The Eye of the World

Love, Smile

“Everyone hates clowns," Otis said. "Even other clowns hate clowns.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

“It's lovely. I hate it.”

Tanith Lee (1947–2015) British writer

Source: Wolf Queen

Love

“If there's a trick to doing a job you hate… Mrs. Clark says it's to find a job you hate even more.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted (2005), Chapter 20, Cassandra, Another story by Mrs. Clarke

“… 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 (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet

Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale

Hell, Heart

“The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Life, Forgiveness

“Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.”

Christopher Moore book A Dirty Job

Source: A Dirty Job

Love, People, Parent, For Parents

“The older you get, the fewer slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What happened to them?”

Drew Barrymore (1975) American actress, director and producer

“My hate is general, I detest all men;
Some because they are wicked and do evil,
Others because they tolerate the wicked,
Refusing them the active vigorous scorn
Which vice should stimulate in virtuous minds.”

Molière The Misanthrope

Source: The Misanthrope

Men, Evil

“You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

Love

“I hate quotations.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.”

Agatha Christie book The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

Source: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

Love

“The cat that Prim got hates me, I think partly because I tried to drown it.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Cats, Thinking

“The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.”

Barry Hughart book Bridge of Birds

Source: Bridge of Birds

Love, Health, Dependency

“I hated him. I hated them all. They made me hate myself even more than I already did.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

“I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, our secret curses, our hidden hate.”

Anaïs Nin book A Spy in the House of Love

Variant: We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts.
Source: A Spy in the House of Love

Secret