James Baldwin Quotes

Hatred is nothing but a form of cancer, and it will eat you up.

Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - 'It destroys everything around it, except itself.'

Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.

By hating that person, you have lost something very sweet in yourself.

Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.

The greatest enemy to man is man.

Hatred corrodes the container it’s carried in.

Bitterness kills the soul.

I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.

Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.

There's another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. [...] For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That's what hate does.

Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.

The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.

Anger is self-immolation.

Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from, in most cases. It is like a two-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself. The more violently you hack at the other person, the more violently you hack at yourself. It can often be fatal. But it is not easy to dispose of. Please be careful, Mr.Okada. It is very dangerous. Once it has taken root in your heart, hatred is the most difficult think in the world to shake off.

This is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot.

One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.

Hate won't only destroy us. It will destroy these people that's hating as well.

Hate would destroy him who hated.