Sydney J. Harris Quotes

The great difference between the two feelings is that love is always creative, and fear is always destructive.

Hate is only a form love that hasn't found a way to express itself logically.

I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.

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

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

As much as you can love someone, is as much as you can hate someone. It goes in equal and opposite directions. Like if you love someone so much and they hurt you so bad, then that is as equal as to how much you can have rage for them.

I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.

Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not.

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

Everything that is fear cannot be love, and everything that is love cannot be fear.

I've seen hatred and I have seen love. And love is more powerful.

Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard.

Think about love, or hate, or joy, or pain- whatever makes you feel something, makes your palms sweat, or your toes curl. Focus on that feeling. When people don't express themselves, they die on piece at a time.

Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the one thing hated.

If jealousy was the vindaloo of love, I'd imagined her tongue burning, and such a fire forcing her to spill her truth.

I think the book is less emotional than the film. With the film, the emotions are much more raw and in front. In the book, they are kind of ironized and seen through comedy.

If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.

you have to love something before you can hate it.

Dumbledore had not raised his voice, he did not even sound angry, but Harry would have preferred him to yell; this cold disappointment was worse than anything.

There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain.

It's easiest to write songs when I'm either really in love or really mad at a guy. It's just always best when I'm feeling superemotional.

We can always hate that which we loved, and with a fire as great as our love once was.

For a lot of people, their first love is what they'll always remember. For me it's always been the first hate, and I think that hatred, though it provides often rather junky energy, is a terrific way of getting you out of bed in the morning and keeping you going.

If you love with violence and you hate with violence there is nothing that can be questioned.