Quotes about hate page 9
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Again the Magic
“Zoë threw up her hands in exasperation. "I hate this language. It changes too often!”
Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse
Source: The Titan's Curse
Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) British writer
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred And Profane Memories Of Captain Charles Ryder
“I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.”
Holly Black book Doll Bones
Source: Doll Bones
“I hate reality but it's still the best place to get a good steak.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
“I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments”
John Steinbeck book Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Alan Paton (1903–1988) South African writer and activist
Cry, the Beloved Country, 1948
Source: Cry, The Beloved Country
“Can't we be friends?'
I hate your guts, Frankovitch'
Can't our guts be friends?”
Barbara Park (1947–2013) American juvenile author
“I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.”
Rodney Dangerfield (1921–2004) American actor and comedian
“I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.”
Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer
Source: The Poison Eaters and Other Stories
“I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.”
Borís Pasternak book Doctor Zhivago
Source: Doctor Zhivago
“My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.”
Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer
“The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.”
Eldridge Cleaver (1935–1998) American activist
"On Becoming"
1960s, Soul on Ice (1968)
“I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist”
Gena Showalter (1975) American writer
Source: Seduce the Darkness
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
In reference to the Alabama Council on Human Relations, an organization which was joined by King, whose church's meeting room was used to hold monthly meetings for the Montgomery chapter the council. Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (1958)
1950s
Context: Although the Montgomery council never had a large membership, it played an important role. As the only truly interracial group in Montgomery, it served to keep the desperately needed channels of communication open between the races.
Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated. In providing an avenue of communication, the council was fulfilling a necessary condition for better race relations in the South.
“I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.”
Dick Gregory (1932–2017) American comedian, social activist, social critic, writer, and entrepreneur
Nigger: An Autobiography (1964)
“I know hate is a strong word and everything, but its okay: we're teenagers.”
Cecily von Ziegesar book You Know You Love Me
Source: You Know You Love Me
“I hate it when my leg falls asleep. I know that means it's going to be up all night.”
Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
“I hate loneliness, but it loves me.”
Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist
Source: Bleach―ブリーチ― 42 [Burīchi 42]
“I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
Actually said by Giuseppe Baretti, February 13, 1766. The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page http://www.samueljohnson.com/apocryph.html#19, retrieved 24 October 2018 <br class="br">Misattributed
Julie Garwood (1946) American writer
Source: The Prize
Howard Dean (1948) American political activist
Maggie Haberman, "Dean's Howling For Shot To Lead DNC Into Future Battle To Head Democrats", New York Daily News, January 30, 2005. Retrieved from Proquest May 12, 2016.
Ray Comfort (1949) New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist
You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think (2009)
Source: You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think: Answers to Questions from Angry Skeptics
Clint Eastwood (1930) actor and director from the United States
Source: Wild Open Spaces: Why We Love Westerns
“I loved him too much not to hate him at all!”
Je l'ai trop aimé pour ne le point haïr!
Source: Hermione, Andromaque (1667), act II, scene I.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
May 1849: This is a remark Emerson wrote referring to the unreliability of second hand testimony and worse upon the subject of immortality. It is often taken out of proper context, and has even begun appearing on the internet as "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know" or sometimes just "I hate quotations".
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)
Source: The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
“The ego hates losing – even to God.”
Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest
Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
“I hated you when it would have taken less courage
to love.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
“Misogynist — A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.”
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
Markus Zusak book The Book Thief
Source: The Book Thief
Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
Source: Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Traveling Mercies; on page 22 of Bird by Bird she attributes this to "my priest friend Tom"
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.”
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1950s, Loving Your Enemies (November 1957)
Variant: Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater.
Context: There’s another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. You just begin hating somebody, and you will begin to do irrational things. You can’t see straight when you hate. You can’t walk straight when you hate. You can’t stand upright. Your vision is distorted. There is nothing more tragic than to see an individual whose heart is filled with hate. He comes to the point that he becomes a pathological case. For the person who hates, you can stand up and see a person and that person can be beautiful, and you will call them ugly. For the person who hates, the beautiful becomes ugly and the ugly becomes beautiful. For the person who hates, the good becomes bad and the bad becomes good. For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That’s what hate does. You can’t see right. The symbol of objectivity is lost. Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater. [... ] when you start hating anybody, it destroys the very center of your creative response to life and the universe; so love everybody. Hate at any point is a cancer that gnaws away at the very vital center of your life and your existence. It is like eroding acid that eats away the best and the objective center of your life. So Jesus says love, because hate destroys the hater as well as the hated.
“Does it give you déjà voodoo how alike the houses are?"
"That's déjà vu, and I hate you right now”
Rachel Caine (1962) American writer
Source: Ghost Town
“I hate this plan,” I said. “Let’s do it.”
Rick Riordan book The Sword of Summer
Source: The Sword of Summer
“They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.”
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
Pietro Aretino (1492–1556) Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist, and blackmailer
Source: The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters, 1926, p. 152
“As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.”
George Harrison (1943–2001) British musician, former member of the Beatles
“Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.”
William Faulkner book Light in August
Source: Light in August
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
The Argument
1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793)
“Don't you hate it? Not ever saying how you really feel?”
Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes
Source: City of Ashes