quotations about hate
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
JAMES BALDWIN
The Fire Next Time
If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind, as by degrees will break out upon those who are your friends.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The Spectator, July 24, 1711
Hatred unlocks no doors in heaven.
WILLIAM F. DEVAULT
"idol of Clay"
Hate is like water in a dry gulch. The longer it runs, the deeper it digs.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
There is no passion
More spectral or fantastical than Hate;
Not even its opposite, Love, so peoples air
With phantoms, as this madness of the heart.
LORD BYRON
The Two Foscari
Next to meeting somebody who admires someone we admire, we all like to meet somebody who hates someone we hate.
ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES
Poems and Paragraphs
Hatred makes us all ugly.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON
Burnt Offerings
Hating is wasteful and absurd. But there are people we can't get along with, hateful people, perhaps people that hate us for no reason in the world or people that annoy us or draw us into quarreling. Isn't it better for us to keep out of the way? Often we find people taking this line of thought. As a rule it is self-deceptive. Surely it is better for us to keep out of the way of those we can't get along with. But when we meet them there is only one thing for us to do, to treat them courteously, to be careful not to let them see that we are suspicious of them or in any way unfriendly. We must actually take toward them a kindly attitude. We must realize that their faults belong to the huge family of faults from which we ourselves make a generous draft.
JOHN DANIEL BARRY
"Hating", Reactions and Other Essays Discussing Those States of Feeling and Attitude of Mind That Find Expression In Our Individual Qualities
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.
CYRIL CONNOLLY
The Unquiet Grave
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.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Stride Toward Freedom
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
1957
Hatred is night; kindness is day.
SUHRAWARDI
attributed, Day's Collacon
Hatred does not cease by hatred, hatred ceases by love; this is the eternal rule.
BUDDHA
attributed, Day's Collacon
Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
AMY LOWELL
"The Revenge", The New Republic, July 12, 1922
As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate.
JOHN LYLY
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit
For never can true reconcilement grow,
Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
Open and avowed hatred far more becomes a man of straightforward character than concealing our sentiments with a smooth brow.
CICERO
attributed, Day's Collacon
In time we hate that which we often fear.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Antony and Cleopatra
Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
letter to Sir Robert Cecil, May 10, 1593
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
The Scarlet Letter