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Quotes About Loathing

I hate puppets so much.
~ Trey Parker
What do you despise? By this you are truly known.
~ Frank Herbert
No, it was not anger, it was loathing; it was hatred, sheer and unadulterated, and as she became lost in hatred she also began to be lost in IT.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Anyone willing to change," Shmuel said, "will always be considered a traitor by those who cannot change and are scared to death of change and don't understand it and loathe change.
~ Amos Oz
More and more commonly, the strongest public sentiment is one of profound loathing - subversive loathing of 'the hegemonic discourse,' Western loathing of the East, Eastern loathing of the West, secular loathing of believers, religious loathing of the secular. Sweeping, unmitigated loathing surges like vomit from the depths of this or that misery. Such extreme loathing is a component of fanaticism in all its guises.
~ Amos Oz
Take the fact that people generally were full of loathing and it cost them an effort to look at one another. Mostly they wanted to be let alone. And they dug for unreality more than for treasure, unreality being last great hope because then they could doubt that what they knew about themselves was true.
~ Saul Bellow
My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full of loathing and abhorrence of life, and all that life carries in its train.
~ William Godwin
Yes, I recognize Zarathustra. His eyes are clear now, no longer does he sneer with loathing. Just see how he dances along!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
If you ask a human being what makes his flesh creep more, a bat or a bomb, he will say the bat. It is difficult to experience loathing for something merely metal, however ominous. We save these sensations for those with skin and flesh: a skin, a flesh, unlike our own.
~ Margaret Atwood
I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.' What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education.' Employers sense in me a denial of their values.' He rolled over onto his back. 'They fear me. I suspect that they can see that I am forced to function in a century I loathe. This was true even when I worked for the New Orleans Public Library.
~ John Kennedy Toole
Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Triffids were at large...I began to loathe them now from more than their carrion-eating habits - they, more than anything else, seemed able to profit and flourish on our disaster...
~ John Wyndham
As incompetent in life as in death, I loathe myself and in this loathing I dream of another life, another death. And for having sought to be a sage such as never was, I am only a madman among the mad . . .
~ Emil Cioran
Whenever he was uncomfortable -- which was often -- his arms and legs seemed to stretch to monstrous proportions and he handled them with bewildered loathing, as though he had been afflicted with them.
~ baldwin james iv
I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens.
~ Elton John
I have always hated bowling, and I don't mind admitting it.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Whatever its cause, the media's general Hillary Clinton loathing is a foundational truth that would define her as president.
~ Joy Reid
Lady Cinderford,' said the Dowager, referring to her widowed sister-in-law in accents of loathing, 'will act as hostess at Stanyon over my dead body!' 'That would be something quite out of the ordinary way,' murmured the Earl.
~ Georgette Heyer
There was nothing romantic about Miss Charing's appearance, but her entrance would not have shamed a Siddons. You, she uttered in accents of loathing. I might have known it!
~ Georgette Heyer
Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives there. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices.
~ Audre Lorde
I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.
~ Ayn Rand
I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.
~ Ayn Rand
The time for argument was over: Foucault wanted to crush an enemy, even though he claimed he loathed this kind of attack, in one of his last interviews.*
~ Benoît Peeters
I hate horror movies, with a passion.
~ Katee Sackhoff