Quotes on I Hate

God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

I hate pretty. It’s a very empty word. It gives a bad name to beauty.

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Impossible is just an opinion.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.

I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end of the principal characters, and I know the major turning points and events from the books, the climaxes for each book, but I don't necessarily know each twist and turn along the way. That's something I discover in the course of writing and that's what makes writing enjoyable. I think if I outlined comprehensively and stuck to the outline the actual writing would be boring.

The opposite of love is not hate. It is fear.

You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.

What I hate about kitchen-sink dramas is [this idea] that the set is real, therefore you're going to be seeing truth. You have to earn truth. Truth can't be a part of the fact that people appear to talk that way and live in that room. You're looking for the poetry in something, and I don't mean poetry in the fancy sense. Naturalism believes by just replicating a thing you give the truth, rather than earning the truth.

Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, "I hate you, God." That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you've had in months.

Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Well, I hate to argue with a Russian genius, but Tolstoy didn't know Indians, and he didn't know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reasons: the frikkin' booze.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

I'm one of those people that you have to keep your eye on or I'll wander off into the woods and forget to come back.

I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.

Yo get a real job. Rappin doesn't pay the rent, I hate the studio cause that's where all my money went.

I think a lot of us are not on a path; we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life.

I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.