Animosity Quote by Berthold Auerbach

People want to be loved; failing that admired; failing that feared; failing that hated and despised. They want to evoke some sort of sentiment.…

— Hjalmar Söderberg

When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.

— Albert Camus

Hatred and bitterness and anger only consume the vessel that contains them. It doesn't hurt another soul.

— Rubin Carter

We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by…

— Blaise Pascal

“Why does that obstinate little voice in our heads torment us so? Could it be because it reminds us that we are alive, of…

— Donna Tartt

All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet…

— William Butler Yeats

Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with…

— Lydia Sigourney

Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply.

— Marquis de Sade

Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.

— Matthieu Ricard

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

— Bertrand Russell

Happiness and depression cannot blossom on the same vine. Some people affirm their woes and beg for sympathy. Others, unfortunately, cast gloom wherever they…

— Louis Sullivan