Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference.

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

Men do very little from love, a great deal from hate, most of all from indifference.

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

You can only hate someone whom you have the capacity to love, because if you are really indifferent, you cannot even get up the enough energy to hate him.

I think it's pathetic that women and men treat each other worse than we treat our pets. It's love or hate.

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

Hate can pardon more than love.

If he didn't care about you, you couldn't upset him.

Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.

Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking about; you misjudge me again: it is not because she is mad I hate her. If you were mad, do you think I should hate you?

Those who behave in ways that displease you are sending out their disharmony toward you because that is what they have to give away. Hating them is akin to hating moss for growing on a tree.

Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it

Love and hate, despite their polar opposites, are both feelings that are induced by passion. I can handle that. It's the indifference I don't know how to process.

Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.

There's nothing I love more in life than turning around a bigot.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.

I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.

But in my heart of hearts, this is the kind of thing... this is what everyone is struggling with in their lives - relationships and family. To me, it's always an interesting area to mine. I'm drawn to it.

My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you.

What makes a fulfilling relationship or fulfilling life is not simply found in another. It's found in a group of others.