Love Quotes

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.

~ Matthew De Abaitua

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.

~ Chaim Potok

Hatred, like a bush fire, ultimately consumes those who propagate it, leaving nothing but scorched, barren earth behind in their hearts. Love, the greatest of reckless endeavours, inspires men to greatness in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds... Maybe this book is just that, a reckless endeavour of the heart.

~ Stephen Lee

Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I'll always be in your heart... If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.

~ William Shakespeare

You cannot change someone using fear, degradation, humiliation, or by comparing them to others. It can only be done through love, with love, for love.

~ Suzy Kassem

I love my ex so much I printed out all his pictures. After all, I need him for target practice. And I just love customised toilet paper and doormats. My only regret is that those items don't bear his autograph.

~ Natalya Vorobyova

Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio. des fieri sentio et excrucior.I hate and I love. You may ask, why I do this. I do not know. But I sense that I do and it pains me.

~ Catullus

Unable to understand why you think so, when you chose a different path.

~ Sujata Mondal

Silly Felix, hate and love are the flip sides of the same tarnished coin.

~ Heather R. Blair

It's not love that you hate, it's the loved one who betrayed.

~ Syed Arshad

My sister compares her body to a junkyard and I find bits of scrap metal beneath her bed from boys who bury promises in her belly. Maybe love ruins you a little bit. Maybe we don’t care. We are so young to hate everything so much. Can recite the periodic table from memory but still can’t quite believe it when they say that they love us, too.

~ Kristina Haynes

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.

~ Thomas Middleton

Love me or hate me, both are in my favor. If you love me, I'll always be in your heart. If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.

~ William Shakespeare

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.

~ Tom Rob Smith

When we continue to hate, we continue to lose. When we amplify mutual respect and love, we have a lot to gain. Quite simply, there is more for us to gain through love than hate.

~ Suzy Kassem

Love is as irrational as hate and just as unpredictable.

~ Marty Rubin

Only the unloved hate, the unloved and the unnatural.

~ Charlie Chaplin

A man once told me that there are infinite places love will take you, but revenge is the business of hate, and there is only one place hate will take you---the end. The end of you and the end of everything you once stood for. But I welcomed my end.

~ Tara Brown

The way he looks at me makes me ache, but it isn’t fair. He hurt me first. He caused this ache from the start. This inside out, churning pain that feels mental and physical now.I fiddle with my hands, peering up at him again, and all I can think is, God, I wish he’d stop staring at me like that.

~ Alex Rosa

I'm God. I will give you love and never hate you. I'll give you all the comforts you've ever imagined. Because I'm the God.

~ Nugas

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.

~ Herta Müller

I met a woman who told me she wasn't attracted to Asians. No worries, I said. I'm not attracted to racists.

~ Simon S Tam

We are rich in hearts, but poor with love.

~ Anthony Liccione

Pain withheld becomes hate, pain shared becomes love.

~ Seekerohan

His mama put down the bag and headed for the door, her mouth a thin line. “Wait! What are you doing? Don’t go over there and yell at her.” Paul jumped off the stool and tried to beat her to the door. “Oh, honey, I would never do that.” His mama stepped into the hallway. “I’m fixin’ to invite her for dinner.

~ Mary Jane Hathaway

Promoting what you don't like, invites more of it to your doorstep. Beat the right drum. ~T.F. Hodge

~ T.f. Hodge

Love is the strongest motivator of all, Reagan. Stronger than fear, stronger than hate, stronger than whatever else is out there. Love is more than enough to survive with; it's enough to live with.

~ Rachel Higginson

We tend to search for happiness and love forgetting that both can be found when we stop searching for sadness and hate.

~ Hisham Fawzi

It's easier to hate than to hurt.

~ Erin Mccahan

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

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

What you hate the most, stays with you, while the loved ones walk away.

~ Mehek Bassi

Dictators long ago found that it is easier to unite people in common hatred than in common love.

~ Dagobert D. Runes

I'm supposed to hate you for what you did, I think. But her eyes linger on me in a way that refuses to let me.

~ Marie Lu

The Creator favors the man who LOVES over the man who HATES. If you teach hatred to your children, one day your child will have that hatred reflected back onto them and onto YOU.

~ Suzy Kassem

The love hidden within is always greater than the hate displayed without.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Distance can make a love fade, while closeness can make hate flare; as distance can make hate fade, while closeness can make love flare.

~ Anthony Liccione

The bacteria of resentment bred: distance turned to distrust; distrust turned to bitterness; bitterness to hate, which is, after all, a kind of grievous love

~ Johnny Rich

Without virtue, it is hard to bear the results of good fortune suitably. Those who lack virtue become arrogant and wantonly aggressive when they have these other goods. They think less of everyone else, and do whatever they please. They do this because they are imitating the magnanimous person though they are not really like him.

~ Aristotle On The Megalopsychos

How may I hate that which I love with such intensity of passion? How should I abhor that for which my every drop of blood is boiling?

~ Ludwig Tieck

Some might say; loving is worse than hating, yet leaving is the worst.

~ Azza Nazh