HATE QUOTES IV

quotations about hate

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

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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

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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 unlocks no doors in heaven.

WILLIAM F. DEVAULT

"idol of Clay"

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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

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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

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Now I am silent, hate
Up to my neck,
Thick, thick.
I do not speak.

SYLVIA PLATH

Ariel

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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.

CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Jane Eyre

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Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

AMY LOWELL

"The Revenge", The New Republic, July 12, 1922

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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

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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


Heav'nly love shall outdo Hellish hate.

JOHN MILTON

Paradise Lost

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Hatred does not cease by hatred, hatred ceases by love; this is the eternal rule.

BUDDHA

attributed, Day's Collacon

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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

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You never really hate anyone as much as someone you cared about once.

CASSANDRA CLARE

City of Glass

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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

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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


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

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Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

SIR WALTER RALEIGH

letter to Sir Robert Cecil, May 10, 1593

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Hatred makes us all ugly.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Burnt Offerings

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