Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them

I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The human state is pitiable: born to die, capable of so much, accomplishing so little; killing instead of creating, destroying instead of building, hating instead of loving. Pitiful, pitiful.

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

Without love, intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence, love is not enough.

Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.

I'm very sensitive in real life. I cannot not cry if someone around me is crying. I will start to cry if someone is crying, even if it's not appropriate. I have that thing in me, a weakness or sensitivity.

You have to think with the heart.

We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.

Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.

Care and pity are two different things.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.

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

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

Love is a dangerous commodity - fraught with peril.

Hate won't solve anything.

A woman's pity often opens the door to love.

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.

My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there.