More quotations tagged with “hate”
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
—André Gide
The skepticism of youth signals the beginning of a search for something actually worth trusting, both within one's own psyche and in the world. That's why teens, supposedly stuck in life's lost years, are often so unequivocal about what they love and what they hate, and so frustrated when they feel misunderstood. The adolescent spirit is not the spirit of the lost. It is the conviction that you are not lost — that wandering has a purpose, and that what you deserve more than anything is the freedom to walk awhile on your own path.
—Ann Powers
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
—Charles Caleb Colton
Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
—W. L. George
I don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once I understood it, it dissipated.
—Gayle Forman in Where She Went