quotations about hate
Hatreds are the chimneys of the mind, serving to carry off the smoke of its pestilent humors.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is quiet.
JOHANN PAUL FRIEDRICH RICHTER
Hesperus
When our hatred is too keen it places us beneath those we hate.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Hatred comes with a persistency worthy of a better cause, and clamors for possession of the citadel of the soul.
NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY
Helps to Happiness
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
FRANK HERBERT
Dune
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them, because we hate them.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking.
CYRIL CONNOLLY
The Unquiet Grave
Hate is like a swordfish,
working through water invisibly
and then you see it coming
with blood along its blade,
but transparency disarms it.
PABLO NERUDA
Autumn Testament
Take care that no one hate you justly.
SYRUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immutable law.
JAMES BALDWIN
Notes of a Native Son
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.
DAVID MITCHELL
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
In all our hating there is a vast amount of egotism. If we could forget ourselves we should instantly forget our hating. We know of people who have done others injustice and who are consequently hated by those people. But we don't necessarily hate them or feel any resentment. It is only when the injury becomes our injury that we subject ourselves to torment. For this reason alone we ought to see what a small personal thing hate is and what an unwise indulgence.
JOHN DANIEL BARRY
"Hating", Reactions and Other Essays Discussing Those States of Feeling and Attitude of Mind That Find Expression In Our Individual Qualities
My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard on the millions of people who hate you for what you are and you're likely to turn into one of those unkempt, sloppy dressers who sag beneath the weight of the two hundred political buttons they wear pinned to their coats and knapsacks.
DAVID SEDARIS
Naked
Hatred is the anger of the weak.
ALPHONSE DAUDET
Lettres de mon Moulin
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Jane Eyre
Flat or round, there has always been hate in the world.
TANITH LEE
Night's Master
Now I am silent, hate
Up to my neck,
Thick, thick.
I do not speak.
SYLVIA PLATH
Ariel
People lose a lot of time in hating others, and there's no fun in it at all.
L. FRANK BAUM
The Adventures of Trot & Cap'n Bill Before They Went to Oz
Sometimes hate is the only real thing in the world. You can stop loving someone, but hate seems to go on forever. People respect hate. It speaks, it vibrates.
WILLIAM MASTROSIMONE
Bang Bang, You're Dead