Top 82 Love Rather Than Hate Quotes
#1. And so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.
Stephen King
#2. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.
Albert Einstein
#3. We love wealth, and we hate poor people. I know people who work in TV news who have actually been told to do stand-ups rather than put interviews with poor people on the air. We physically don't want to look at them.
Matt Taibbi
#4. I don't hate you, Cyndi. You're blood. I have to love you. You just annoy the hell out of me. He put one
arm around her thin shoulders.
Jez Morrow
#5. I'd rather people love me or hate me than have no opinion of me. Indifference is scary.
Lady Gaga
#6. What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!
Joseph Hall
#7. I'll say I'm sorry for the rest of my life if you'll forgive me," he whispered in her ear.
"I want to hate you."
He pressed his forehead to hers. "You want to, but you don't?"
"I love you, you ass.
Bernadette Marie
#8. Beneath the greatest love lies a hurricane of hate.
Phil Ochs
#10. People who hate you because of a mere jealousy over your success hurt themselves in disguise. This is because you carry an image of who they wish they had become. Don't hate them back because they may also become like you one day and it will mean hurting that image you carry!
Israelmore Ayivor
#11. I love writing - it's the best. But I really hate collaboration.
Norm MacDonald
#12. Probably the most profound thing in the Bible is 'Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.' This is what, to me, is the essence of Christianity.
Dave Brubeck
#13. Lies such as love, guilt, hate, courage, loyalty, and honor.
Dean Koontz
#14. I got ice in my veins
Blood in my eyes/Hate in my heart
Love in my mind
Lil' Wayne
#15. O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!
Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!
William Shakespeare
#16. The point about L-O-V-E is that we hate the word. Because we vulgarize it. It should be taboo, forbidden from utterance for many years, till we've found a new and a better idea.
Larry Kramer
#17. Children would struggle desperately to feel love for their parents. Rather than hate a parent, in fact, they'd choose to hate themselves. Love and violence became so intertwined for them that when they grew up and got into relationships, only hysteria could set their hearts at ease.
Ryu Murakami
#18. We play a tough game. If people want to whinge, they can go to a different sport. It's part of the game, it's what I love about it ... and I'd hate to see it go.
Ben Hannant
#19. Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.
Izaak Walton
#20. You can quickly go from having passion and love to passion and hate when an act of betrayal happens.
Robert Sternberg
#21. Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate,
Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving,
William Shakespeare
#22. Creating art or something beautiful makes you a more fulfilled person than they can ever be because they're caught up in what they hate rather than what they love.
Andy Biersack
#23. I'd rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something that I hate.
George Burns
#24. For a moment, Blake said nothing. After chewing on her venom for a moment, he shrugged. "I would rather you hate me for who I am than love me for who I'm not.
Tanya Kaley
#25. I think a lot of people spend a lot of time talking about what they hate rather than what they love. I don't want to get trapped in that.
Lauren Mayberry
#26. I would rather fail at what I love than succeed at what I hate.
Les Brown
#27. I dont care if you have the smallest part to do with my life or the largest, I love everyone I've ever met, and if you don't like me i still respect you as a person rather than hate you for what you believe in.
Shane Phillips
#28. But try letting yourself be carried along blindly by your feelings, banish your reason if only for the moment; hate, or love, anything rather than do nothing.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#29. I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.
Criss Jami
#30. I think seeing films should be interactive. I'd rather have people see a film that I'm in and either absolutely love it or absolutely hate it, than be like, "Oh, yeah, it was good." That's the worst!
Juno Temple
#31. If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#32. I'd rather hate you for everything you are
Than ever love you for something you are not
I'd rather you hate me for everything I am
Than have you love me for something that I can't
- Five Finger Death Punch
Five Finger Death Punch
#33. I'd rather have an enemy who admits that they hate me, than a friend who secretly puts me down.
Karen Salmansohn
#34. Generally, a woman would rather be married to any man that she doesn't hate, than remain unmarried to a man that she loves.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#35. I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.
Julia Child
#36. Fall in love with what you're going to do for a living. To be able to get out of bed and do what you love to do for the rest of the day is beyond words. I'd rather be a failure in something I love than be successful in something I hate.
George Burns
#37. I would rather have someone say they hate me and mean it, than have someone say they love me and not.
Jeffrey Fry
#38. They'd rather hate you for the truth than love you for the lies.
Kirk Jones
#39. There are so many people in this world to hate good guys rather than to love them.
M.F. Moonzajer
#40. I decided I would rather have a day job and love music than to play music that made me hate it.
David Torn
#41. We have come to see that just as the child must learn to love wisely, so he must learn to hate expeditiously, to turn destructive tendencies away from himself toward enemies that actually threaten him rather than toward the friendly and the defenseless, the more usual victims of destructive energy.
Karl A. Menninger
#42. Compassion is a beautiful grace that releases hate and fearful emotions. Through the power of compassion, when put in delicate circumstances with dysfunctional human beings, rather than loathing their behaviour, you can be compassionate to their internal suffering and love them unconditionally.
Christopher Dines
#43. He thinks men like me weak. He thinks me dumb, feeble, subhuman. I was not raised in palaces. I did not ride horses through meadows and eat meals of hummingbird tongues. I was forged in the bowels of this hard world. Sharpened by hate. Strengthened by love. He is wrong. None of them will survive.
Pierce Brown
#45. I love the passions. They create such sensation! Anger, grief, fear, love, hate, excitement. The fierce emotions make one feel. Such are a gift, so one knows one is alive. To live without passion is to have no life at all.
Nikki Sex
#46. I think people love each other a little more than they hate each other ... Love has a slim hold on the human corporation, like fifty-one per cent, but it's enough.
Peter De Vries
#47. You can look forward with love or backward with hate, and people have to make that choice for themselves. But holding on to bitterness is like drinking poison and waiting for someone else to die, and she by God wasn't going to waste her time like that.
Abigail Strom
#48. While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.
Bo Bennett
#49. Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed
Frederick Buechner
#50. I could deal with hate and fear, but for the love of all that's right in the world, don't fake like me. Life was too short to waste energy faking anything.
Donna Augustine
#51. It's hard to hate you, but It's even harder to love you.
Unknown
#52. I just wish you could love me more than you hate him,
-Lo to Ryke
Krista Ritchie
#54. His entire presence was like gravity, impossible to forget, possible to believe in, a theory merged into a law.
Shannon A. Thompson
#55. Hate isn't like love, it doesn't end. It goes on forever. You can never get to the bottom of it. And it's so pure, so unconditional!
Lev Grossman
#56. The greatest flood has the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate.
Socrates
#57. Love is wonderful. Hate is not. Man seeks woman to love. They do not when they hate. What makes this so? Perhaps no one knows. Man will continue to love and hate.
Lao Chang
#58. The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love-if your so consumed with hatred for someone, you might as well be loving them because your thinking about them for the same amount of time.
Marilyn Manson
#61. sometime hate is just confused love!
Omar Tyree
#62. Fear can't be reasoned with. Neither can hate. They're like love. They're almost identical emotions.
Rick Riordan
#64. Pain withheld becomes hate, pain shared becomes love.
Seekerohan
#65. People hate you for 1 of 3 reasons. 1) They hate themselves 2) They want to be you 3) They see you as a threat When you love yourself you are incapable of hating anyone no matter what they've done.
Tony Gaskins
#68. Some people love you for a reason, some people hate you for no reason ... Yet I am still me and you are still you.
Adam Aksara
#69. The sun weeps because it can no longer caress your skin or warm your lips." He sifted his fingers through my hair. "I do not envy the sun, Eva. But I truly hate the moon, because its light touches you in all the ways I cannot.
Michele Bardsley
#70. [ ... ] falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you at something of a disadvantage.
Nick Hornby
#71. Someone who could love so hard and so well could also hate, and hurt, as deeply
Jodi Picoult
#72. I am right at the bottom compared to everybody else with press kits and demos and trying to get meetings. That's what I love about music and hate about it. That's why I respect people that are successful in the music business because you really have to build it from the ground up.
Drake
#73. I love Allah: I have no time left in which to hate the devil.
Rabia Basri
#74. Another reason why we must love our enemies is that hate scars the soul and distorts the personality.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#75. The dark side is emotion, Bane. Anger, hate, love, lust. These are what make us strong, Peace is a lie. There is only passion. Your passion is still there, Bane. Seek it out. Reclaim it.
Drew Karpyshyn
#76. One word can change your life forever.
I love you
I hate you
Think about it
Alan Macmillan Orr
#77. It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.
Hermann Hesse
#78. Well he could hate too, hate was easy, hate would fuel him if his mother's love could not. Loyalty is our strength. He snorted a silent laughed of derision. Let loyalty be your strength, Father. My hate for you will be mine.
Anthony Ryan
#79. Shaunee was digging in her purse like she'd misplaced a tube of one of MAC's seasonal lipsticks that you buy and fall in love with AND THEN THEY DISCONTINUE IT BECAUSE THEY REALLY HATE US AND WANT US TO BE CRAZY.
P.C. Cast
#80. You promised me you would never cheat on me, that you'd love me forever and we would never get a divorce." "I still love you, and I hate that I cheated on you, and I wish we'd never gotten divorced.
Terry McMillan
#81. Just as extreme love, in a marriage, for example, can turn to hate. They're the same coin, just different sides.
William Kuhn
#82. You have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too. (191)
Sherman Alexie
