Quotes about hatred

It is one of the advantages of this world that people can hate and be hated without knowing each other.

Go no further down the road of hatred.

The beginning as well as then end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law; that hatred which, if it be not checked in its growth by some providential event, becomes, in a certain time, hatred of society, then hatred of the human race, and then hatred of creation, and reveals itself by a vague, brutal desire to injure some living being, it matters not who.

The knot of hatred should be opened, not tightened.

Translation: If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

He wanted to answer them with steel and explosives, with metal tearing into soft tissue and spinning on the bone. When the war was over there would be a place for contemplation, even generosity, but in the meantime he treasured his hatred as a means of saving his own life and those of his men.

Sometime the hating has to stop.

Whatever came within his field of vision Jonathan coated with the vile patina of his hate.

Suddenly he knew that he had never found gratification in love, but always only in hatred—in hating and in being hated.

Even today, I sometimes get really quite painfully homesick for Norwood. A sour smell that reminds me of the tanneries will bring it on, such as the smell from a basement down in the Italian part of the Village where some old Italian is making wine. That's one of the damnedest things I ever found out about human emotions and how treacherous they can be — the fact that you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it. Not to speak of the fact that you can hate a person with all your heart and soul and still long for that person.

Love, when you get fear in it, it’s not love any more. It’s hate.

That’s all it takes, one drop of fear, to curdle love into hate.