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Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.


William Hazlitt

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Love turns, with little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is inmortal.
WILLIAM HAZLITT No really great man ever thought himself so. - William Hazlitt,
WILLIAM HAZLITT Hatred is so much closer to love than indifference.
MARYA HORNBACHER The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust
SAMUEL BECKETT I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
J. AUGUST STRINDBERG I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
J. AUGUST STRINDBERG I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
AUGUST STRINDBERG I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
J. AUGUST STRINDBERG He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The words of the Buddha offer this truth: ∼ Hatred never ceases by hatred but by love alone is hea...
JACK KORNFIELD One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opin...
WILLIAM HAZLITT And he wallowed in disgust and loathing, and his hair stood on end at the delicious horror.
PATRICK SüSKIND One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: b...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is ha...
QUARLES FRANCIS Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatr...
FRANCIS QUARLES Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is immortal.
ISOCRATES Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than ...
JOSEPH BUTLER Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature ma...
MATT GROENING Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?
DON WILLIAMS, JR Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?
DON WILLIAMS JR The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
ELIE WIESEL Hatred doesn’t need company. It stews in its own loneliness and can grow still. Love needs compani...
KYLE SCHMALENBERG It is always better to correct a person with love,than to correct with hatred.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone ...
CESARE PAVESE I don't need people, love or sex. Neither money, clothes or cars. The hate I gained was most needed....
MARIO FINGAROV Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic...
MARGARET ATWOOD Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
BILLIE HOLIDAY …in that moment, as he saw and smelled how irresistible its effect was and how with lightning spee...
PATRICK SüSKIND No one tells the truth about indifference. Indifference is the next best thing to love.
MARTY RUBIN The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
E. W. HOWE Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
JOHN GALSWORTHY Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
LIBBIE FUDIM Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference
LIBBIE FUDIM It doesn't matter to me, whether I play alone or with an orchestra, I still get a little nervous. Bu...
ALEXANDRE BOUZLOV To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
EMILY DICKINSON Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a...
G. K. CHESTERTON Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON William, an artist is someone who combines a desperate need to be understood with the fiercest love ...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG Hatred is always at war with love that keeps growing.
TOBA BETA Correcting with love is ten times more effective than correcting with hatred.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) You won’t ever have everyone love you, just as you won’t have everyone hate you. find the right ...
ELISE KOVA Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there i...
PETER S. BEAGLE Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love
BUDDHA Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
BERTRAND RUSSEL Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Love is a given, hatred is acquired.
DOUG HORTON Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred
BIBLE Isn't forgiveness a holy virtue? And if so, then why do we insist on keeping historical records of r...
SUZY KASSEM friendship is good when it turns to love,but when love turns to friendship it hurts.
RODERICK ROTOL What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remai...
ALBERT PIKE Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens li...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens li...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Hatred paralyses life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens li...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. All love is lost but upon God alone.
WILLIAM DUNBAR What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.
ROBERT E. LEE Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, so...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indif...
ELIE WIESEL The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indi...
ELIE WIESEL I feel a vast indifference toward everything that is not love.
MARTY RUBIN Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which...
THOMAS AQUINAS Action with love is right conduct. Speak with love and it becomes truth. Thinking with love results ...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love. Hatred wh...
BARUCH SPINOZA The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations wh...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable...
BUDDHA Isn't it funny.I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than i ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. ...
JANET FITCH Isn't it funny. I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than I ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental....
JANET FITCH This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
PEACE PILGRIM The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.
CHRISTOPHER PIKE The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.
MAL PANCOAST Self love is the elixir of an immortal heart.
AMY LEIGH MERCREE The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
ELIE WIESEL Hatred is a curse that only love can cure.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS It's an indulgence. A healthy indulgence.
ANTHONY STONE People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intellige...
ANDRE MAUROIS You might expect little girls to love their Barbie and expect an imaginary love in return. Instead g...
AGNES NAIRN When love gets on a slippery slope, unawareness or indifference might be the underpinning of disench...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither "good" or "bad", and who knows neither love nor hatred...
SAVITRI DEVI All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
WALTER BENJAMIN These people are so damned proud of their hatred! Hatred is easy, and lazy to boot. It’s love that...
ERIKA JOHANSEN By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER When we begin to build walls of prejudice, hatred, pride, and self-indulgence around ourselves, we a...
MOTHER ANGELICA Hate is a strong emotion. Much more stronger than indifference. But those who burn with hate can als...
MORGAN RHODES Hatred may last a lifetime, but love is ever lasting.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
BUDDHA Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The history of AIDS is filled with indifference, hatred, intolerance, and eventually acceptance and ...
GREG HOLLINGSWORTH I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love.
YASUNARI KAWABATA I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a l...
NANCY CARTWRIGHT In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-k...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Good by-aye!" she chanted, my American sweet immortal dead love; for she is dead and immortal if you...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Hatred is blind, as well as love.
OSCAR WILDE Wherever love is blind, hatred can't see.
TOBA BETA

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WILLIAM HAZLITT One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: b...
WILLIAM HAZLITT If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the ins...
WILLIAM HAZLITT One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opin...
WILLIAM HAZLITT I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another...
WILLIAM HAZLITT He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in mind
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those only deserve a monument who do not need one
WILLIAM HAZLITT Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them
WILLIAM HAZLITT A person may be indebted for a nose or an eye, for a graceful carriage or a voluble discourse, to a ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a t...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those who from a constant change and dissipation of outward objects have not a moment's leisure left...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have
WILLIAM HAZLITT One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself. I can ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.
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