Hate Quotes

“It was interesting the way a small hate could grow inside a big hate and take it over.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division which rend cities and homes. Jesus and his disciples will be condemned on all sides for undermining family life, and for leading the nation astray; they will be called crazy fanatics and disturbers of the peace. The disciples will be sorely tempted to desert their Lord. But the end is also near, and they must hold on and persevere until it comes. Only he will be blessed who remains loyal to Jesus and his word until the end.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

“You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate.”
― Alice Sebold, Lucky

“...the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.”
― Paul Hoffman, The Left Hand of God

“There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I hate you!” I screamed at Fang. Tucking my wings in, I aimed downward,
diving toward the ground at more than two hundred miles an hour.
“No you dooonnn’t!” Fang’s voice spiraled away into nothingness, far above
me.
Inside my head, almost drowned out by the roar of wind rushing by my ears, I
heard the Voice make a tsking sound. You guys are crazy about each other, it
said.”
― James Patterson, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

“Don't be afraid to let it go. Releasing hate does not make you forget what you want always to remember. It does not mean reconciliation.”
― Leila Meacham, Tumbleweeds

“I hate her."
Merlin laughed, tossing the stick down. "Not so. You have forgotten how to love. That's a different sorrow.”
― Catherine Fisher, Corbenic

“If I knew me as somebody else, I would hate me just as much. Why have a double standard?”
― david wong

“One hates a person for the same reason one loves him ”
― Russell Banks

“All I knew was that hate was so deadly as any poison and did no one any good. You had to control and eliminate it, if you could.”
― Louis Zamperini, Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

“Last period of the day was new gym class. It was her only class that didn't include Evan, which was a relief. She should be functioning at a peak concentration, but he and his luminous eyes kept distracting her. First opprtunity I have, she thought. I'll bite him.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, Drink, Slay, Love

“If you love somebody set them free- it also works equally well if you hate somebody”
― Josh Stern

“Sometimes, in my world where parents hated one another and school was a battleground, it sucked to be me.”
― Jennifer Brown, Hate List

“Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate,
Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving:
O, but with mine compare thou thine own state,
And thou shalt find it merits not reproving,”
― William Shakespeare

“A sight to touch e’en hatred’s self with pity.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“I could simply
kill you now,
get it over with,
who would
know the difference?
I could easily
kick you in, stove you
under, for all those times,
mean on gin,
you rammed words
into my belly. (p. 52)”
― Barbara Blatner

“I wonder if I'll ever forgive Evandar? I wonder even more if I should bother," Aderyn said.

"Of course you should," Nevyn said wearily, "but for your own sake, not his. Hatred binds a man to what he hates, and I think me you need to be free of him.”
― Katharine Kerr, The Spirit Stone

“The sun which warms the plant can under other conditions also wither it. The rain which nourishes the flower can under other conditions rot it. The same sun shines upon mud that shines upon wax. It hardens the mud but softens the wax. The difference is not in the sun, but in that upon which it shines. The Divine Life which shines upon a soul that loves Him, softens it into everlasting life; that same Divine Life which shines upon the slothful soul, neglectful of God, hardens it into everlasting death.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The Seven Capital Sins

“My old man taught me to never trust anything that bleeds for three days and doesn't die.”
― Tommy Tran

“oh.
she heard it
too-no waters
coursing, canyon
empty, sun
soundless-
and the beast
your life
nowhere
hiding (p. 103)”
― Barbara Blatner, The Still Position: A Verse Memoir of My Mother's Death

“The hate people hold on to for so long is what keeps them from feeling the pain they're most afraid of. deal with it. grow.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“Every decent man in America ought to swoon with joy for the opportunity to crush with his heel the woolly head of this black lizard, to keep him from scuttling on his belly farther over the earth and spitting forth his venom of death!”
― Richard Wright, Native Son

“...gripping the
rim of the sink
you claw your
way to stand
and cling there,
quaking with
will, on
heron legs,
and still the hot
muck pours
out of you. (p. 27)”
― Barbara Blatner, The Still Position: A Verse Memoir of My Mother's Death

“blue-gold sky, fresh cloud,
emerald-black mountain, trees
on rocky ledges,

on the summit, the tiny pin
of a telephone tower-all

brilliantly clear,
in shadow and out.

and on and through
everything
everywhere
the sun shines
without reservation (p. 97)”
― Barbara Blatner, The Still Position: A Verse Memoir of My Mother's Death

“...his soul (was) ringing like a well-struck bell. But it was a bell that rang with more than joy and adoration — there was the sound there too of anger and resentment. She would not look at him because she did not want to be in his presence. She hated him and he (how could he not?) hated her in return.”
― Paul Hoffman, The Left Hand of God

“We become our decisions over time. We choose to love, or we can choose to hate. We can choose to forgive, or we can choose to take revenge; to have hope, or we can choose to fall into despair. But, regardless, we become our choices we make over time." p. 318”
― David LeRoy, The Siren of Paris

“Mary Fisher lives in a High Tower, on the edge of the sea: she writes a great deal about the nature of love. She tells lies.”
― Faye Weldon

“All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can't eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it.”
― Colum McCann, Fishing the Sloe-Black River

“Experience has thought me that there is only one short step between Love and Hate, as there is between Life and Death.”
― Olaotan Fawehinmi, If I Were A Girl, I Would Not...