Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill.

My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

Fear is the brother of hate.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

Hatred is self-punishment.

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

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

Jealousy is a hell of a thing. There's a reason it's one of the deadly sins.

My hatred gives me strength.

I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this--I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.

It is your attachment that creates hell.

Hatred is the atmosphere of hell.

Hatred, revenge, bitterness - these are negative emotions. The person harbouring those emotions suffers more.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

Misery generates hate.

Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

Already Roland feels his limbs starting to go numb. He swallows hard. "I hate this. I hate you. I hate all of you." "I understand.

Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn't build upon hatred, but upon love.

Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot.

Hate is too heavy a burden to bear.

For what is delusion but the prelude to hurt. And what is hurt but the prelude to rage.

I was hell bent on destruction... it was like being possessed by a demon.

Hatred makes us all ugly.