
“It's better to be hated for what you are, than to be loved for what you're not…”
Frequently misattributed to Marilyn Monroe or Kurt Cobain.
Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=xUtdDnEhkMMC&pg=PT12&lpg=PT12#v=onepage&q&f=false
Source: Autumn Leaves, Philosophical eLibrary, 2012, (Feuillets d'automne, 1941, trans. Jeanine Parisier Plottel)
“It's better to be hated for what you are, than to be loved for what you're not…”
“I paint what you love to hate and what you hate to love.”
"Riiko Sakkinen" at riikosakkinen.com
“If you betray me, can I take a better revenge
Than to love the person you hate?”
Me puis-je mieux venger, si vous me trahissez,
Que d'aimer à vos yeux ce que vous haïssez?
Domitien, act IV, scene iii.
Tite et Bérénice (Titus and Berenice) (1670)
“To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.”
al-Ghazali https://awakenthegreatnesswithin.com/35-inspirational-imam-al-ghazali-quotes-on-success/
“Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.”
Act II, scene i. Precedent for Alfred Tennyson's more famous: "'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all"
The Way of the World (1700)
“I love myself better than you
I know it's wrong, but what should I do?”
On A Plain.
Song lyrics, Nevermind (1991)