118 Quotes On Hate

In a world where emotions run deep and connections are intricate, the concept of hate emerges as a powerful force that can shape lives and societies. While often seen as a negative emotion, hate is complex and deeply ingrained in human nature, sometimes revealing profound truths about our values and vulnerabilities. In this curated collection of the top 118 quotes on hate, we delve into the minds of thinkers, writers, and leaders who have articulated this intense emotion. Through their words, we gain insights into the roots of hate, its impact on the human spirit, and the potential for transformation. Whether you're seeking to understand hate's role in history or looking for inspiration to rise above it, these quotes offer a thoughtful journey into one of humanity's most challenging emotions.

1. “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.” - Elie Wiesel

2. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

3. “I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.” - Graham Greene

4. “When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.” - Chuck Palahniuk

5. “When apparent stability disintegrates,As it must--God is Change--People tend to give inTo fear and depression,To need and greed.When no influence is strong enoughTo unify peopleThey divide.They struggle,One against one,Group against group,For survival, position, power.They remember old hates and generate new ones,The create chaos and nurture it.They kill and kill and kill,Until they are exhausted and destroyed,Until they are conquered by outside forces,Or until one of them becomesA leaderMost will follow,Or a tyrantMost fear.” - Octavia Butler

6. “Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

7. “To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.” - Robert Ingersoll

8. “Love those you hate you.” - Leo Tolstoy

9. “If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.” - Elbert Hubbard

10. “It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

11. “Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour” - Euripides

12. “This story is about love, which means that it is also about hate.” - Philip José Farmer

13. “Hate is a lack of imagination.” - Graham Greene

14. “People hate as they love, unreasonably.” - William M. Thackeray

15. “There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.” - Erich Fromm

16. “Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.” - Niccolo Machiavelli

17. “I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave it birth. For it could be seen how easy and simple it made everything, in principle, everything ironed and the true problems concealed. Everybody must jump on the bandwagon [Ausweg]. And actually not a year passed before it became an official credo, and it still is.” - Erwin Schrödinger

18. “Suddenly, by the sort of violent effort with which one wrenches one's head away from the pillow in a nightmare, Winston succeeded in transferring his hatred from the face on the screen to the dark−haired girl behind him. Vivid, beautiful hallucinations flashed through his mind. He would flog her to death with a rubber truncheon. He would tie her naked to a stake and shoot her full of arrows like Saint Sebastian. He would ravish her and cut her throat at the moment of climax. Better than before, moreover, he realized why it was that he hated her. He hated her because she was young and pretty and sexless, because he wanted to go to bed with her and would never do so, because round her sweet supple waist, which seemed to ask you to encircle it with your arm, there was only the odious scarlet sash, aggressive symbol of chastity.” - George Orwell

19. “Hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!” - Eric Jerome Dickey

20. “No matter how much you hate or how much you suffer, you can't bring the dead back to life” - Watsuki Nobuhiro

21. “To truly hate is an art one learns with time.” - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

22. “I can't take it anymore. The waiting. The wanting. Something inside me snaps. I hate myself. I hate that I have to deal with this. I hate my life. And I hate how I can't count on anyone to be completely there when I need them, exactly the way I need them to be.” - Susane Colasanti

23. “You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love.” - Sri Chinmoy

24. “The Nazis were not right to hate the Jews. But their hating of Jews was not without a cause. No one ever hates without a cause.” - Christopher Isherwood

25. “livid, adj.Fuck You for cheating on me. Fuck you for reducing it to the word cheating. As if this were a card game, and you sneaked a look at my hand. Who came up with the term cheating, anyway? A cheater, I imagine. Someone who thought liar was too harsh. Someone who thought devastator was too emotional. The same person who thought, oops, he’d gotten caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Fuck you. This isn’t about slipping yourself an extra twenty dollars of Monopoly money. These are our lives. You went and broke our lives. You are so much worse than a cheater. You killed something. And you killed it when its back was turned.” - David Levithan

26. “We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right. Look at computers. Why are they all putty-colored or off-fucking-white? You make something off-white or beige because you are afraid to use any other color – because you don’t want to offend anybody. But by definition, when you make something no one hates, no one loves it. So I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That’s what we really pay attention to anyway. We don’t talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.” - Tibor Kalman

27. “I turned to look into his face one last time. It was as if I could see the whole universe in his eyes. Maybe he was God, maybe he was simply enlightened. I didn't care right then, in that blessed moment, I just loved him. Later, though, the love was to turn to hate, to fear. They seemed so opposite, the feelings, yet they were all one note on his flute.” - Christopher Pike

28. “You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now.” - W. Somerset Maugham

29. “Isn't it funny. I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than I ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes its mind. But hatred, now, that's something you can use. Sculpt. Wield. It's hard, or soft, however you need it. Love humiliates you, but Hatred cradles you.” - Janet Fitch

30. “Anger is an essential part of being human. People are taught to deny themselves anger, and in this, they are actually opening themselves up to hate. The more you deny yourself the freedom to be angry, the more you will hate. Let yourself be angry, and hate will disintegrate, and when hate disintegrates, forgiveness prevails! The more you deny that you are angry, in attempts to be "holy" the more inhuman you will become, and the more inhuman you will become, the harder it will be to forgive.” - C. JoyBell C.

31. “You know what they say," Amanda said. "Hatred isn't the opposite of love, it's just another variation of it. They both mean you have passionate feelings for someone.” - Robin Brande

32. “Men don't hate anything if there's no hatred in their hearts.” - Toba Beta

33. “Love is hateWar is PeaceNo is YesAnd we're all free.” - Tracy Chapman

34. “Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.” - Honoré de Balzac

35. “I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.” - Martha Gellhorn

36. “Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death?” - Emil Cioran

37. “Hate is the father of all evil.” - David Gemmell

38. “She hated herself more than she could express.” - Jane Austen

39. “Hate flows from a broken spirit.” - Kevin Walker

40. “What was my truth worth, if I was prepared to defend the entire world, but not those who were close to me? If I subdued hate, but wouldn't give love a chance?” - Sergei Lukyanenko

41. “Ahh the 90's I hated ye when I was in it, but I love it now that it's gone...” - Allison B. Levine

42. “I'm running on hate.” - Suzanne Collins

43. “This cavern is below all, and the enemy of all; it is hatred, without exception.” - Victor Hugo

44. “Do they hate the idea of her, because she's different from them, and that in this difference there might be some sort of inferiority or superiority that is hers or theirs, that in the end threatens the potential happiness of everyone?” - Steven Galloway

45. “Because I love you. Don't you get it? Not because Cassandra is a part of you and Coroebus is a part of me. I love you because you are Nadira. The strange beautiful Nadira. The Nadira that has such hatred for me it kills to see the anger in your eyes whenever you even glance at me. I love Nadira. Not Cassandra. I love you.” - Atarah L. Poling

46. “Love is both wondrous and yet full of peril. Love is a gateway through which hatred - disguised and unrecognized - can pass.” - David Gemmell

47. “Never let haters 'still' your flow. They can only do so with your permission.” - T.F. Hodge

48. “In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love, but dispassionate and icily rational.” - Ian McEwan

49. “I’m mistaken….for thinking you were someone with a heart worth breaking.” - Jamie Weise

50. “We always hate people who surprise our secrets…” - L.M. Montgomery

51. “Why should one hate you when you were so small? Could you be worth hating?” - L.M. Montgomery

52. “Love and hate are so confused in your savage minds and the vibrations of the one are so very like those of the other that I can't always distinguish. You see, we neither love nor hate in my world. We simply have hobbies.” - Gore Vidal

53. “But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned.” - Terry Pratchett

54. “For maybe the first time he could remember, he was very seriously thinking about how to best kill someone he’d never even seen.” - Yukako Kabei

55. “Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love” - Clive Barker

56. “The ones who hate me the most are the ones who don't scare me.” - Rebecca McKinsey

57. “Hate and love are reciprocal passions.” - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

58. “Mencoba mengubur kesedihan dengan menimbun kebencian adalah suatu hal yang sia-sia. Semakin kau membenci, semakin erat pula tali kepedihan itu akan melilitmu.” - Tanti Susilawati

59. “If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone.” - Sheldon B. Kopp

60. “Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles” - Tahereh Mafi

61. “For a lot of people, their first love is what they'll always remember. For me it's always been the first hate, and I think that hatred, though it provides often rather junky energy, is a terrific way of getting you out of bed in the morning and keeping you going. If you don't let it get out of hand, it can be canalized into writing. In this country where people love to be nonjudgmental when they can be, which translates as, on the whole, lenient, there are an awful lot of bubble reputations floating around that one wouldn't be doing one's job if one didn't itch to prick.” - Christopher Hitchens

62. “Simon Glass was easy to hate. I never knew exactly why, there was just too much to pick from. I guess, really, we each hated him for a different reason, but we didn't realize it until the day we killed him.” - Gail Giles

63. “We are all born and someday we’ll all die. Most likely to some degree alone.What if our aloneness isn’t a tragedy? What if our aloneness is what allows us to speak the truth without being afraid? What if our aloneness is what allows us to adventure – to experience the world as a dynamic presence – as a changeable, interactive thing?If I lived in Bosnia or Rwanda or who knows where else, needless death wouldn’t be a distant symbol to me, it wouldn’t be a metaphor, it would be a reality.And I have no right to this metaphor. But I use it to console myself. To give a fraction of meaning to something enormous and needless.This realization. This realization that I will live my life in this world where I have privileges.I can’t cool boiling waters in Russia. I can’t be Picasso. I can’t be Jesus. I can’t save the planet single-handedly.I can wash dishes.” - Rachel Corrie

64. “I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.” - Anne Rice

65. “Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don't know any other way to live than by extremes because thier emotional theromastat is broken.” - Shannon L. Alder

66. “To die hating them, that was freedom.” - George Orwell

67. “Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other. The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.” - Adrienne Rich

68. “I hate you. I wish you was dead."Mrs. Carey gasped. He said the words so savagely that it gave her quite a start. She had nothing to say. She sat down in her husband's chair; and as she thought of her desire to love the friendless, crippled boy and her eager wish that he should love her--she was a barren woman and, even though it was clearly God's will that she should be childless, she could scarcely bear to look at little children sometimes, her heart ached so--the tears rose to her eyes and one by one, slowly, rolled down her cheeks. Philip watched her in amazement. She took out her handkerchief, and now she cried without restraint. Suddenly Philip realised that she was crying because of what he had said, and he was sorry. He went up to her silently and kissed her. It was the first kiss he had ever given herwithout being asked. And the poor lady, so small in her black satin, shrivelled up and sallow, with her funny corkscrew curls, took the little boy on her lap and put her arms around him and wept as though her heart would break. But her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.” - W. Somerset Maugham

69. “Hate was such a waste of human resources. So little was accomplished with hate, so much more with love.” - Haley Walsh

70. “...and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether. ” - colum mccann

71. “At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.” - Benjamin J. Carey

72. “I love fools who don't know they are fools but hate fools that know they are.” - Hmedon

73. “September 11… I will never forget feeling scared and vulnerable… I will never forget feeling the deep sad loss of so many lives… I will never forget the smell of the smoke that reached across the water and delivered a deep feeling of doom into my gut… I will never forget feeling the boosted sense of unity and pride… I will never forget seeing the courageous actions of so many men and women… I will never forget seeing people of all backgrounds working together in community… I will never forget seeing what hate can destroy… I will never forget seeing what love can heal…” - Steve Maraboli

74. “What’s the point in hating something if you aren’t proactive?” - Kiersten White

75. “You're a disaster for us, Clary! You're a mundane, you'll always be one, you'll never be a Shadowhunter! You don't know how to think like we do, think about what's best for everyone-- all you think about is yourself! But there's a war now, or there will be, and I don't have time or the inclination to follow around after you, trying to make sure you don't get us killed! Go home, Clary. Go home!” - Cassandra Clare

76. “But there is something about human beings that too often makes our love for the world look very much like hatred for it.” - Marilynne Robinson

77. “I collapsed to my knees and looked up at the predawn sky. "I hate you," I said softly."I love you," the voice whispered back.” - Glenn Beck

78. “Of course, when you fall out of love, it’s rarely about just one failure or one betrayal, is it? . . . How does it happen? All those things you once loved about each other are replaced by other things that remind you of something you hate until you’re always setting each other off, and what you share is a battleground. In the end, the failure turns out to be less about sex—which surprises most men—and more about loss of respect. One morning your partner looks at you across the bed and wonders at the waywardness of her own heart—how, she asks herself, can she feel such disdain for someone she once felt such love?” - Frederick Weisel

79. “I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.” - Michael Morpurgo

80. “The criminalization of debt, then, was the criminalization of the very basis of human society. It cannot be overemphasized that in a small community, everyone normally was both a lender and borrower. One can only imagine the tensions and temptations that must have existed in a community—and communities, much though they are based on love, in fact because they are based on love, will always also be full of hatred, rivalry and passion—when it became clear that with sufficiently clever scheming, manipulation, and perhaps a bit of strategic bribery, they could arrange to have almost anyone they hated imprisoned or even hanged.” - David Graeber

81. “Once you kill all of us, and you're alone, you'll die! The hate will die. That hate is what moves you, nothing else! That envy moves you. Nothing else! You'll die, inevitably. You're not immortal. You're not even alive, you're nothing but moving hate.” - Ray Bradbury

82. “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

83. “Richard Wright, a Mississippi-born negro, has written a blinding and corrosive study in hate. It is a novel entitled "Native Son".” - David L. Cohn

84. “Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.” - Gregory David Roberts

85. “A little hatred goes a long, long way. It grows and grows. And it’s hungry. You keep feeding it more and more people, and the more it gets, the more it wants. It’s never satisfied. And pretty soon it squeezes all the love out of your heart and all you’ll have left is a hateful heart.” - Jerry Spinelli

86. “Until they feel what we feel, they will never fully understand the own hell they caused.” - Shannon A Thompson

87. “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

88. “Love is as hard to hide as hate.” - Jennifer Hudson Taylor

89. “You and I are victims of the same disease. We're fighting the same war, just different battles in different theaters, and it's way too late for me to hate you for anything, because we're the same damn thing. My soul, your conscience, whatever's left of me woven into whatever's left of you, all tangled up and conjoined. We're in this together, corpse.” - Isaac Marion

90. “How sad. How frightening. To be filled with so much hate that you could not even rejoice in the healing of a child...How did anyone ever come to that point?” - Stephanie Meyer

91. “Hatred is self-punishment. Do you think they're feeling bad because you hate them?” - Michelle Cohen Corasanti

92. “...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

93. “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

94. “oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)” - Barbara Blatner

95. “There are no saints either. We are immortal, but not so unlike the humans as you think. We have enemies, we have duties, we hate, we struggle, and we love.” - Jessica Fortunato

96. “I think there must be probably different types of suicides. I'm not one of the self-hating ones. The type of like "I'm shit and the world'd be better off without poor me" type that says that but also imagines what everybody'll say at their funeral. I've met types like that on wards. Poor-me-I-hate-me-punish-me-come-to-my-funeral. Then they show you a 20 X 25 glossy of their dead cat. It's all self-pity bullshit. It's bullshit. I didn't have any special grudges. I didn't fail an exam or get dumped by anybody. All these types. Hurt themselves. I didn't want to especially hurt myself. Or like punish. I don't hate myself. I just wanted out. I didn't want to play anymore is all. I wanted to just stop being conscious. I'm a whole different type. I wanted to stop feeling this way. If I could have just put myself in a really long coma I would have done that. Or given myself shock I would have done that. Instead.” - David Foster Wallace

97. “Hate is... It's too easy. Love. Love takes courage.” - Hannah Harrington

98. “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

99. “How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about it! We've started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much? I've heard the rumors about hate too, once in a long while, over the years. Do you know why? I don't, that's sure! Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!” - Ray Bradbury

100. “It was interesting the way a small hate could grow inside a big hate and take it over.” - Laini Taylor

101. “Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear.” - Martin Luther King

102. “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

103. “All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can't eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it.” - colum mccann

104. “A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.” - Anthony Trollopel

105. “Fear and hate create separation, love and joy creates belongingness and wholeness.” - Swami Dhyan Giten

106. “Because if I let myself feel the pain and the anger, I think it might kill me. Or I might kill someone else. I know it's wrong to feel that way about God and I know its's wrong to not feel anything. I hate it. I don't hate God. I hate not loving Him.” - Susan Beth Pfeffer

107. “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

108. “It is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things ... I would have to make a list, a very, very long list and make sure I hated the people on it the right amount ... No ... we always have a choice. All of us.” - M. L. Stedman

109. “The Bible is still the only dirty book I've ever read, at least in its current incarnation as a weapon of the homophobes. Bible scholarship keeps trying to catch up, proving that all the hatred of gay is just stupid translation, though the snake-oil preachers don't want to hear it.” - Paul Monette

110. “You hated what we had done, and it had meant so much to me. I hated you after that.” - S.C. Stephens

111. “Well, good afternoon, sunshine. How are you feeling?""Like something the cat dragged in, then dragged back outside to leave in the rain, and mud, then the lightning hit it, and burned it, and the cat came back to tear it into pieces, before burying it.” - Kimberly Montague

112. “When I took the pills, I wanted to kill someone I hated. I didn't know that other Veronikas existed inside me, Veronikas that I could love.” - Paulo Coelho

113. “How would your life be different if instead of spending your energy and focus on hating those who hate you, you spent your energy and focus on loving those who love you?” - Steve Maraboli

114. “I'm going to put death in all their food and watch them die.” - Shirley Jackson

115. “Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent.” - Orson Scott Card

116. “In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exist, there must also be losers. The selfish desire of wanting to maintain peace causes wars and hatred is born to protect love.” - Masashi Kishimoto

117. “I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism.” - Charles Bukowski

118. “J!m squinted his first hate of the day.” - Larry Doyle