Love and Hate Quote

Of the many contradictions that exist in the world, the contrast between love and hate is perhaps the starkest. It is one that helps us value true love while understanding the ramifications of hatred. A few of the following love and hate quotes bring out the exceptionality of this contrast. Note: These are not quotes from the movie Love and Hate: The Story of Colin and Joanne Thatcher.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There's nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.

Bob Dylan
I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred.

Sigmund Freud
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.

Francais Edward Smedley
All is fair in love and war.

Josh Billings
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

Mark Overby
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.

Mignon McLaughlin
Hate leaves ugly scars; love leaves beautiful ones.

Hermann Hesse
Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.

Francois de la Rochefoucauld
In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.

Jonathan Swift
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Havelock Ellis
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Mohandas K. Gandhi
Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred.

Harry Emerson Fosdick
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.

Elie Wiesel
The opposite of love is not hate; it's indifference.

Ella Wilcox
Love lights more fire than hate extinguishes.

Doug Horton
Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.

William Congreve
Heaven has no rage, like love to hatred turned,
Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorned.

Abraham Lincoln
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?