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Tag: hate, love

Laurie Halse Anderson

I could never hate you, even if I wanted to.

It’s easier to hate than to hurt.

Tereza’s death hurt me so much, it was as if I had two heads smashing into each other. One was full of mown love, the other of hate. I wanted the love to grow back. It grew like grass and straw, all mixed up together, and turned into an icy affirmation on my brow. That was my damn stupid plant.

Thomas Middleton

I know she hates me, yet cannot choose but love her: No matter, if but to vex her, I’ll haunt her still; Though I get nothing else, I’ll have my will.

You are not doing this for her. You’re doing it for yourself. Your life is not just about the people you love. It’s also about the people you hate.

Matthew De Abaitua

If you said to me, “I do not love, I have never loved,” then you would sound incomplete. Equally, if you say “I do not hate, I have never hated,” then you sound like half a man.

I sat near a window in our little synagogue and looked out at the large church and wondered how a statue whose face was so full of love could be worshipped by someone whose heart was so full of hate.

Hate and love be closer cousin than like and dislike.

W. Somerset Maugham

He thought to himself that there could be no greater torture in the world than at the same time to love and to contemn.

hate generalizes, love specifies

Hate cannot live alone. It must have love as a trigger, a goad or a stimulant

Terry Pratchett

The hated have no reason to love.