quotations about hate
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 makes us all ugly.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON
Burnt Offerings
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
Heav'nly love shall outdo Hellish hate.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
letter to Sir Robert Cecil, May 10, 1593
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 ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
AMY LOWELL
"The Revenge", The New Republic, July 12, 1922
Hatred does not cease by hatred, hatred ceases by love; this is the eternal rule.
BUDDHA
attributed, Day's Collacon
Hatred is night; kindness is day.
SUHRAWARDI
attributed, Day's Collacon
The moment we begin hating we start a train of mischief. Instantly the person we hate becomes a painful object, not to the physical eye alone, but to the eye of consciousnes which can see objects far away or not present at all. The good haters carry about with them many such objects. They fill their house of life with hideous furniture. Life itself they make ugly. And the ugliness they reflect in their feeling, often in their looks. The good haters easily assume hateful expressions. And hateful expressions sometimes become fixed in the face. Indeed, all the beauty doctors in the world cannot hide such betrayals. Furthermore, hating quickly shows itself to the object hated. If the object hated is human it is likely to return hate for hate. Now the war is on. There is no knowing how far it will go, with its reprisals. Invariably hating brings out the worst aspects in the hater and in the hated.
JOHN DANIEL BARRY
"Hating", Reactions and Other Essays Discussing Those States of Feeling and Attitude of Mind That Find Expression In Our Individual Qualities
Blunted unto goodness is the heart which anger never stirreth,
But that which hatred swelleth, is keen to carve out evil.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER
Proverbial Philosophy
Hate engenders hate. Hate spreads to nations, and from this cause we have devastating wars. In the contemplation of these wars and their origins there is something humiliating to our human race. No Hymn of Hate can ever be a paean of humanity.
ARTHUR ALFRED LYNCH
Moods of Life
Hatred is the ballast of
the rock
which lies upon our necks
and underfoot.
MAYA ANGELOU
"Glory Falls"
Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.
WILLIAM PENN
Some Fruits of Solitude
Hatred is like fire--it makes even light rubbish deadly.
GEORGE ELIOT
Janet's Repentance
There's no hate lost between us.
THOMAS MIDDLETON
The Witch
You never really hate anyone as much as someone you cared about once.
CASSANDRA CLARE
City of Glass
That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see in others, though not so clearly in ourselves.
HERBERT SPENCER
The Study of Sociology
When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Invisible Monsters
In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me--they hate you too. They hate everybody. Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone--and, ultimately, hating himself or herself.... They need hate in order to feel superior.
ELIE WIESEL
O: The Oprah Magazine, Nov. 2000