George MacDonald Quotes

Do you think it makes people nasty to be loved? You know it doesn’t! Then why should it make them nice to be loathed? While you’re being persecuted, you hate what’s happening to you, you hate the people who are making it happen; you’re in a world of hate. Why, you wouldn’t recognize love if you met it! You’d suspect love! You’d think there was something behind it—some motive—some trick.

I think a lot of people spend a lot of time talking about what they hate rather than what they love. I don't want to get trapped in that.

To love means to give, and to give means to build, while to hate is to destroy.

Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much.

Love lights more fire than hate extinguishes.

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?

If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.

Love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

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

Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.

There's nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.

Hate is more interesting than love.

Fear is the brother of hate.

I love you more than I hate everything else.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

You can't go wrong with love.

To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important.

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.

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.

While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love.