Love and Hate Quotes

He Loves Me. He Loves Me Not

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Love is a sticky web of emotions. You feel intense emotions towards the object of your affection. At times, you are intensely attracted to your lover. You feel a surge of love that makes you want to be by his side forever. At other times, you are greatly repulsed by your sweetheart. You feel intense anger, possessiveness, and frustration over the smallest matters. You are confused by your sudden bouts of love and hatred welling inside your heart.


Love makes you sick: you can't live with it; you can't live without it. Harry Emerson Fosdick has beautifully encrypted this love-hate dichotomy in this quote: "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."

Love and Hate Are Two Sides of the Same Coin

If this eternal war of love and hate is causing you heartache, take it easy. You are lucky to be in such a passionate relationship. Your love-hate status only goes to show that you are deeply in love. If your partner also shares the same depth of emotions, you are made for each other.


Get rid of your insecurity. Your on-off relationship will stabilize once you understand what you want from it. Do you want to get engaged? Is marriage on the cards? Or do you want to simply explore your relationship a bit further before you make a commitment? Take no hasty steps. Share your concerns with your lover, and make sure that both of you are on the same page.

Move on, Life Is Bigger Than Love

If your partner is not as passionate as you are, you may face compatibility issues. Are you worried that he is "just not that into you?" Do you fear that your lover is seeing someone else too? Does your lover feel suffocated by your overtures?

Begin a New Life With or Without Your Lover

If your love is unreciprocated, you need to reexamine your feelings. Perhaps your insecurities are playing truant with your feelings. Or perhaps, you raised your expectations too much. If your unrequited love is causing you much angst, you need to walk away from the pain. Go away to a place where you can think with a cool head. Seek the advice of your trusted friends, and let them help you analyze the situation objectively. You may not see things clearly, but your close friends may be able to help you sort out your troubles. Read motivational books and inspirational stories. These love and hate quotations also bring you different insights about relationships. Read these quotes and master the emotional tug-of-war of passions within your heart.

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 pretense 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?"