Philip Roth Quotes

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

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

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.

As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.

Resentment is the poison we drink, hoping it will hurt others.

Hatred corrodes the container it’s carried in.

The hater always suffers more than the object of his hatred.

I knew what it is to hate.

If I wanted to punish an enemy, it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody.

Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.

Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.

Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.

Whom they have injured they also hate.

Yeah, I have animosity, a chip on my shoulder. But I love, too.

There's no hate lost between us.

Hatred is settled anger.

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

I hate everybody.

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

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.

I hate the ground that man walks on.

Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.

Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence.