Animosity Quotes

“They want us to be afraid.
They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes.
They want us to barricade our doors
and hide our children.
Their aim is to make us fear life itself!
They want us to hate.
They want us to hate 'the other'.
They want us to practice aggression
and perfect antagonism.
Their aim is to divide us all!
They want us to be inhuman.
They want us to throw out our kindness.
They want us to bury our love
and burn our hope.
Their aim is to take all our light!
They think their bricked walls
will separate us.
They think their damned bombs
will defeat us.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that my soul and your soul are old friends.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that when they cut you I bleed.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that we will never be afraid,
we will never hate
and we will never be silent
for life is ours!”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Beware of those who criticize you when you deserve some praise for an achievement, for it is they who secretly desire to be worshiped.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“It is very normal for one ugly weed to not want to stand alone.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“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

“A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Animosity hung between them like a two-edged sword; neither of them could use it without first getting hurt herself.”
― Margaret Millar, Beast In View

“How we begin and how we end any relationship is a product of planning, fortuity, and personality. Many enterprises commenced in good faith spiral into confusion, discord, and disarray, generate turmoil and corruption, sunburn the sensitive parties, and conclude in a cesspool of regret and animosity.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Don’t ever think of any person who’s trying to hurt you and harm you. Obviously, they don’t deserve your love, but you don’t deserve to feel hate because of them. Ignore them like they don’t exist, but do what you can to protect yourself.”
― Maria Karvouni

“There's nothing there.

There's no hate, bitterness
or animosity towards you,
but there is also no desire
to reconnect, converse, or be
close with you either.

Because when I let it go,
I fully let you go as well.

You may never see or hear
from me again but, trust me,
there is only love on my end.”
― Morgan Richard Olivier

“The Creator favors the man who loves over the man who hates.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Every day the material world mistreats me. My sensibility is like a flame in the wind. I walk down the street and I see in the faces of the passers-by, not their real expressions, but the expressions they would wear if they knew about my life and how I am, if the ridiculous, timid abnormality of my soul were made transparent in my gestures and in my face. In the eyes that avoid mine I suspect a mockery I find only natural, aimed at the inelegant exception I represent in a world that takes pleasure in things and in activity and, in the depths of these passing physiognomies, I imagine and interpose an awareness of the timid nature of my life that sparks off guffaws of laughter. After thinking this, I try in vain to convince myself that I alone am the source of this idea of other people's mockery and mild opprobrium. But once objectified in others, I can no longer reclaim the image of myself as a figure of fun. I feel myself grow suddenly vague and hesitant in a hothouse rife with ridicule and animosity. From the depths of their soul, everyone points a finger at me. Everyone who passes stones me with merry insolence. I walk amongst enemy ghosts that my sick imagination has conjured up and planted inside real people. Everything jabs and jeers at me. And sometimes, in the middle of the road - unobserved, after all - I stop and hesitate, seeking a sudden new dimension, a door onto the interior of space, onto the other side of space, where without delay I might flee my awareness of other people, my too objective intuition of the reality of other people's living souls.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

“...his size drew attention
from everyone who happened to glance downwards. But Mulch quickly discovered that Mud
People could find a reason to distrust almost anyone. Height, weight, skin colour, religion. It was
almost safer to be different in some way.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code

“Animosity in fact loves, but in a different sense. Meaning it loves in the same way that, as it is often said, misery loves company. And just as love seeks unity, so does hatred crave uniformity.”
― Criss Jami

“Lord Templeton-Vane bared his teeth in what a stupid person might have mistaken for a smile.”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Dangerous Collaboration

“When people pass on we must choose how to remember them. While our loved ones sleep for eternity we must carry on with our daily toil. We can elect to harbor adoration and love in our precious memories or cling to animosity and detestation. We can kindly remember our ancestors or continue to feel embedded enmity towards people who no longer walk this earth. Regardless the human frailties of the recently departed, it seems that we should aspire to clutch the best part of our ancestors being fast to our hearts. A book encapsulating a departed person’s life has many pages; we must choose which chapters to treasure and what chapters to disregard or downplay.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“I took a deep breath and exhaled, letting everything go. I couldn’t control how other people felt. I could, however, control how I dealt with it.”
― Layla Frost, Hyde and Seek

“The perennial lot of human beings and human societies is animosities, antagonisms, and acrimonies. Power, venality, bitterness, and cynicism result in unavoidable conflict, cleavages, schisms, and disharmonies in human affairs. Erosion of standards and values creates disaffection, disillusionment, dissidence, and social instability.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“பகைமை கொண்டு இயங்குபவன் விரைவில் வலிமை இழப்பான். பகை, சினத்தை மட்டுமே வளர்த்தெடுக்கும். போருக்கு தேவை சினமன்று. ஆனால், இதைத் தவிர மற்ற எல்லாவற்றையும் பகை பின்னுக்குத் தள்ளிவிடும்.”
― Su. Venkatesan, வீரயுக நாயகன் வேள்பாரி, முதல் தொகுதி

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs”
― Charlotte Brontë

“You don't have to VENERATE Hercule Poirot, Ms. Christie, but he didn't deserve to be VILIFIED , either!”
― Johanna Oznowicz

“There is only a hairsbreadth between adoration and animosity and when the gap closes it is rarely pretty.”
― Jenny Bayliss, The Twelve Dates of Christmas

“Foolhardiness shouldn’t be confused for animus.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“I want him to suffer in this life before he suffers in the next. I don't want him to escape that. I need him to know how it feels to have to go on living when the person love with all your soul is suffering the torments of the fires for eternity, and you can do nothing to help them, not even place so much as a single drop of cooling water upon their burning tongues. I wanted him to live with that. I wanted him to know that before he dies, for surely that is the only torment that hell itself cannot inflict upon the damned. ...when you hate that much, it is not hard to kill a man at all.”
― Karen Maitland, The Gallows Curse

“When his mentor spoke of the old days, the knights were heroes, not outlaws, and knowing right from wrong, good from evil seemed as natural as breathing. Nowadays, the once clear waters of morality had grown brackish. The country was fractured, one man’s admiration was liable to garner you another man’s animosity.”
― J.R. Potts, Gathering of the Crimson Cloaks

“Before deciding to harbor animosity, ponder the reason for your existence!”
― Ephantus Mwenda Njagi, The Girl From America

“Since the day she threw me into her dungeon, I've noticed something unfriendly about her.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The High King

“Loss does not undo me. I have already watched treasures slip through my hands—things I prayed to keep forever. So a passing shadow, a fleeting nobody, can never wound me. If you choose to make me feel like I don’t matter, know this—you never mattered first. If I did not birth you, I care not for you.”
― D'los Ángeles

“No matter how powerful hate seems, it cannot usurp the throne of love.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions

“So far I’ve been describing a process of getting to know someone as if we live in normal times. I’ve been writing as if we live in a healthy cultural environment, in a society in which people are enmeshed in thick communities and webs of friendship, trust, and belonging. We don’t live in such a society. We live in an environment in which political animosities, technological dehumanization, and social breakdown undermine connection, strain friendships, erase intimacy, and foster distrust. We’re living in the middle of some sort of vast emotional, relational, and spiritual crisis. It is as if people across society have lost the ability to see and understand one another, thus producing a culture that can be brutalizing and isolating.”
― David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen