quotations about hate
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
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
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Jane Eyre
For never can true reconcilement grow,
Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
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
Hatred does not cease by hatred, hatred ceases by love; this is the eternal rule.
BUDDHA
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
Hatred is a passion that never should be permitted to rest in the breast of any human being; if nourished, there is no saying where it may lead its victim, as it often has to the "gallows." If any one you are sure hates you, perhaps you have something hateful about you; if so, mend your ways, and your enemy will cease to hate you, and you'll have ceased to be hateful, so both have benefited. Hatred is devilish, so live above it, and retire to rest each night with a bosom free from hatred to any of God's creatures. If you hate your brother or sister, God cannot love you, nor can you claim to be considered a Christian. Forgive as you hope to be forgiven, or if you forgive not, how can you expect that you will be forgiven. Nourish love and crucify any hatred in you. It is human to err, but it is divine to forgive.
T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH
"On Hatred", Short Essays
Heav'nly love shall outdo Hellish hate.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
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
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
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
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
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
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
Hatred is the ballast of
the rock
which lies upon our necks
and underfoot.
MAYA ANGELOU
"Glory Falls"
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
There's no hate lost between us.
THOMAS MIDDLETON
The Witch
When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Invisible Monsters