hatred bounces.
—e. e. cummings
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
—Charlotte Bronte
If some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they’ve got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates.
—Josephine Lawrence
As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.
—Nelson Mandela
Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate.… Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
—Martin Luther King Jr.
I hate life, I hate death and everything in between just doesn't interest me.
—Chris Rapier
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
—Elbert Hubbard
If you can just stop loving her then you never really loved her at all. Love doesn’t work that way. If you ever truly love someone, then it never goes away. It can become something else. There are all different sorts of love. It can even become hate—a thin line and all that—and, really, hate is just another kind of caring.
—Blakney Francis in Someone I Used to Know
Politics is the systematic organization of hatreds.
—Henry Adams
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
—H. L. Mencken
I had to face the facts; I was pear-shaped. I was a bit depressed because I hate pears. Especially their shape.
—Charlotte Bingham
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.
—Hermann Hesse
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
—Winston Churchill
Isn’t it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle—it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It’s not an act of bitterness. It’s an act of self-preservation.
—Ally Condie in First Day
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 in The Fire Next Time