Antipathy Quotes (18 quotes)

“I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist”
― Gena Showalter, Seduce the Darkness

tags: antipathy, dislike, funny, hatred

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“From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: antipathy

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“Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: antipathy, hatred

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“Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

tags: antipathy, betrayal

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“I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: adoration, antipathy, women

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“Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: antipathy, drama, green, literature, nature, poetry, writing

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“I blinked at her, suddenly loathing her to the depths of my soul. Not only was she probably rather evil, and definitely thoroughly unpleasant, but she also didn't read.”
― Nicole Peeler

tags: aliteracy, antipathy, evil, illiteracy

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“The worst grudge is being told that you are forgiven, yet your sins are still glowing in their hearts like a burning coal.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: anger, animosity, antipathy, aversion, bad-temper, bitterness, burn, burning-anger, coal, deception, dislike, enmity, forgive, forgiveness, glow, glowing, grievance, grudge, grudges, hardhearted, heart, malice, red, trick, unforgiving

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“When you love someone, you end up caring about each and every person they love. When you hate someone, you end up caring about every single person who hates them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: abhor, abhorrence, abominate, abomination, adoration, animosity, antipathy, ardor, attachment, aversion-hostility, besottedness, boyfriend, boyfriends, care, caring, contempt, dating, deep-affection, desire, despise, detest, detestation, devotion, disgust, dislike, distaste, doting, endearment, enemies, enemy, enmity, execration, family, fondness, friend, friends, girlfriend, girlfriends, hate, hatred, husband, husbands, idolization, infatuation, intimacy, loathe, loathing, love, loved-ones, lover, lust, marriage, nearest-and-dearest, odium, partner, passion, relationship, relationship-advice, relationships, revulsion, spouse, spouses, tenderness, warmth, wedding, wife, wives, worship, yearning

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“Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though reason confesses that they are good people: there are others with faults of temper, &c., evident enough, beside whom we live content, as if the air about them did us good.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

tags: antipathy, faults, nature, people, personality, predilection, temper

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“It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.”
― Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics

tags: antipathy

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“He had been dazzled. Because of the dazzling brightness, he had had to kill [Seigen]. All who had encountered Seigen had had their hearts stolen by that brightness. That envy had turned to malice.”
― Takayuki Yamaguchi, シグルイ 15

tags: admiration, antipathy, enemies, envy, heart, human-nature, inspiration, jealousy, love-hate-relationship, mankind, murder, rivalry

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“Fraser had the immediate thought that his was a man whom it would be easy to dislike. He did not just arouse antipathy; he almost seemed to cultivate it.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Magpie Murders

tags: antipathy, dislike, first-impressions

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“Antipathy toward time clouds personal and collective thinking.”
― Marcia Bjornerud, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World

tags: antipathy, time

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“For small minded people, happiness is antipathy; for great minded people, joy is energy.”
― Alan Maiccon

tags: antipathy, energy, happiness

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“Every culture has its vultures for whom the prospect of the death of the "other" brings tidings of a feast.”
― R.N. Prasher

tags: antipathy, culture, hatred, otherness, violence

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“When we stop thinking, we stop caring.”
― Azar Nafisi, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

tags: antipathy, fahrenheit-451, reading, social-awareness, totalitarianism

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“When we stop reading, we pave the way toward book burning; when we stop caring, we make way for someone else to take over control; when we prefer personality to character, and reality show or virtual reality to reality itself, then we get the kind of politicians that we deserve.”
― Azar Nafisi, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

tags: antipathy, book-burning, politicians, reading, reality-tv, social-responsibility, totalitarianism, virtual-reality

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