quotations about hate
The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is quiet.
JOHANN PAUL FRIEDRICH RICHTER
Hesperus
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
If you must hate a man for the many things about which you disagree, remember that you should also love him for the many things about which you agree.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles. Until it spins around and lies with lips and teeth carved into the semblance of something too passive to punch.
TAHEREH MAFI
Shatter Me
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
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
If I wanted to punish an enemy, it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody.
HANNAH MORE
Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More
Hatred is night; kindness is day.
SUHRAWARDI
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Jane Eyre
It is one of the most difficult things in the world to pursuade ourselves that any one can love those whom we ourselves hate.
PRINCESS DE SALM-DYCK
attributed, Day's Collacon
In time we hate that which we often fear.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Antony and Cleopatra
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
I didn't know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It's huge and desperate and it longs to be proved wrong. And every day it's proved right it grows a little more monstrous. If the love was passion, the hate will be obsession. A need to see the once-loved weak and cowed beneath pity. Disgust is close and dignity is far away. The hate is not only for the once loved, it's for yourself too; how could you ever have loved this?
JEANETTE WINTERSON
The Passion
Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
letter to Sir Robert Cecil, May 10, 1593
For never can true reconcilement grow,
Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
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
Now I am silent, hate
Up to my neck,
Thick, thick.
I do not speak.
SYLVIA PLATH
Ariel
Heav'nly love shall outdo Hellish hate.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
Hatred is the greatest cancer that we must squash.
TRACI LORDS
Twitter post, September 3, 2014