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Quotes About Loathing

Marion stepped up to the counter and surveyed the candy-bar display with militant loathing.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Renouncers tended to encourage a virulent loathing and fear of women, while worldly Hindus celebrated women in their sculptures, their poetry, and, sometimes, real life.
~ Wendy Doniger
It's no wonder I eventually started loathing them. Really, who can stand to listen to that level of certainty? To sit through the judgment?
~ Aimee Molloy
I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.
~ Daisy Ridley
It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
If we are going to find sustainable ways of dealing with global warming, we have to base it on love and feeling good, not fear and loathing. If it's fun, then it's sustainable.
~ Dean Ornish
without batting an eye. She hated how much
~ Karen Rose
Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
~ Emil M. Cioran
It is only a matter of time before his brother's presence fades from his memory, and the immediate reality of bearing all humanity's loathing becomes once more his daily preoccupation.
~ David Maine
She ran off the hate she had for herself, ingrained since a young age from a mesmerizing array of influences: things her father said and did, things her mother didn't say and do, magazines, television, girls she went to high school with, a hundred men whistling at her on the street, America in general. She loathed herself, she forgave herself. She loathed them, she did not forgive them.
~ Jami Attenberg
As it became his signature song Sinatra grew to loathe it, forced to stand before his adoring audience and expose the ugly truth about his aggressive disregard for the thoughts and feelings of other people.
~ Jan Dalley
Ethan looked at her with loathing. She was no longer the listless creature who had lived at his side in a state of sullen self-absorption, but a mysterious alien presence, an evil energy secreted from the long years of silent brooding.
~ Edith Wharton
Ethan looked at her with loathing. She was no longer the listless creature who had lived at his side in a state of sullen self-absorption, but a mysterious alien presence, an evil energy secreted from the long years of silent brooding. It was the sense
~ Edith Wharton
Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
~ Aldous Huxley
We watch our sons go to war, disagree with the rationale for sending them, loathe the men who ordered them to battle, and then, when the veterans come home, beg and plead with the local V.A. to ensure they have access to proper care.
~ J. D. Vance
I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
~ Wallis Simpson
I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.
~ Laura Riding
Much more do they want that moral perfection which the blessed partake of; those holy dispositions of mind; that cheerful readiness to do the will of God; that perfect rectitude of all their actions: instead of these, they have that perverseness of will, that loathing of good, that love to evil, that violence of passion, which they had on earth.
~ Richard Baxter
Humans disgust me. Vile creatures.
~ William Regal
He had a wide-ranging knowledge of antislavery activism. He shared the loathing of slavery that was the common denominator among all its varieties, including Garrisonian radicalism, the evangelicalism of the Beechers and Finneys, Transcendentalist individualism, and the political approach of the Liberty and Free Soil Parties. Of the varieties, he strongly preferred the latter
~ David S. Reynolds
And I suppose this is you speaking truth to power. The principle your whole life is organized around." Naomi started. There was loathing in the way it was said. She had never suspected. She shook her head sadly. "No, I don't think I can do that anymore. As you pointed out to me, I'm the power. This is me speaking power to truth.
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz
Oh, how he hated that werewolf. Despised him. Loathed him. Abhorred him. He could take every synonym in the thesaurus, plus all of their foreign language equivalents, including dead languages that only a couple of scholars in the world still knew how to translate, and it wouldn't come close to expressing just how deeply he hated that man-beast.
~ Jeff Strand
There is nothing more base than a certain loathing for the oppressed that goes to great lengths to justify their downtrodden state by pointing to their shortcomings. Not even great and lofty philosophers are entirely free of this failing.
~ Elias Canetti
The keynote of minority prejudice is this: They are loathed because they are feared.
~ Richard Matheson