#hatred

In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#being #despair #doing #else #excitement

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#disguise #elegant #happiness #hatred #human

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#hatred #idealism #love #much #passes

When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God's image carried with it . . . when you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination. ↗

— Graham Greene

#hatred #imagination #imagination

Now, in their love, which was stronger, there were the seeds of hatred and fear and confusion growing at the same time: for love can exist with hatred, each preying on the other, and this is what gives it its greatest fury. ↗

— T.H. White

#love

Phaedra keeps saying she's being selfish. That she hates herself for it, but she does it anyway. She can't deny herself what she wants, even if it brings about her downfall and his." "And have you learned anything from our literary parallel?" "Not really, I keep thinking that she would do it all over again if there were a chance...a chance that it could go right. Even if 99 times out of a 100 the story ends badly, it's worth it if only once she gets a happy ending. ↗

— Cora Carmack

#chance-and-fortune #desire #garrick #guilt #hope

Hatred is so much easier to win than love - and so much harder to get rid of. ↗

— Enid Blyton

#love #love

In that time while he was still aware, which was the worse, I wonder: the agony of his physical torture or the horror of their utter hatred, of their moral certainty that he was so beyond the bounds of what they could accept that he deserved not just a death but one of such brutality, such inhumanity, as would make the seraphs who burned Sodom bow their heads in cold respect? What is it like, I wonder, to learn the full capacity of hatred in a lesson hammered home with bone broken on wood and skin ripped on barbed wire? ↗

— Hal Duncan

#hatred #inhumanity #death

Hatred only tarnishes the soul that carries it. ↗

— D.B. Harrop

#hatred #inspirational #inspirational-quotes #life-lessons #love

There's no time for hatred, only questions. Where is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace? ↗

— Jeff Buckley

#inspirational #jeff-buckley #life #love #no-hatred