quotations about hate
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure;
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
LORD BYRON
Don Juan
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
I know hate is a strong word and everything, but its okay: we're teenagers.
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR
You Know You Love Me
Hatred is the anger of the weak.
ALPHONSE DAUDET
Lettres de mon Moulin
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
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
When our hatred is too keen it places us beneath those we hate.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Hate is like water in a dry gulch. The longer it runs, the deeper it digs.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
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
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
Hatred is self-punishment.
HOSEA BALLOU
Edge-Tools of Speech
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
It is as if he should feel that there is an enemy who could be more destructive to himself than that hatred which excites him against his fellow man; or that he could destroy him whom he hates more completely than he destroys his own soul by this same hatred.
AUGUSTINE
Confessions
The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is quiet.
JOHANN PAUL FRIEDRICH RICHTER
Hesperus
Flat or round, there has always been hate in the world.
TANITH LEE
Night's Master
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
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them, because we hate them.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Take care that no one hate you justly.
SYRUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
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