Quotes about hate
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Source: Again the Magic
“Zoë threw up her hands in exasperation. "I hate this language. It changes too often!”
Source: The Titan's Curse
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.”
Source: Doll Bones
“She hates everything that is not what she longs for.”
Source: Adam Bede
“I hate reality but it's still the best place to get a good steak.”
“I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments”
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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?”
“I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.”
“I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.”
Source: The Poison Eaters and Other Stories
“My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.”
“The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.”
"On Becoming"
1960s, Soul on Ice (1968)
“I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist”
Source: Seduce the Darkness
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.”
Nigger: An Autobiography (1964)
“I know hate is a strong word and everything, but its okay: we're teenagers.”
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.”
“I hate loneliness, but it loves me.”
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.”
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
Misattributed
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.
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
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.
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
“The ego hates losing – even to God.”
Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
“Or. I hate that word. It’s two letters long and stuffed to the gills with reasonable doubt.”
Source: Nineteen Minutes
“I hated you when it would have taken less courage
to love.”
“Misogynist — A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.”
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
Source: The Book Thief
Source: Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons
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.”
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”
Source: Ghost Town
“They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.”
Source: The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters, 1926, p. 152
“As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.”
“I hate it when people imply that people only read because they have nothing better to do.”
Source: Among Others
The Argument
1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793)