Desire Quote by P.D. James

“Why does love end so quickly and hatred last without end?”

— Amy Tan

“Hate was a far easier emotion to deal with sometimes. It burned fiercely and eventually died. Love stayed.”

— Lesley Pearse

“The only way to end things completely was to hurt him enough that his fear was stronger than his hate.”

— Orson Scott Card

“Hatred is nothing but overdose of LOVE...”

— Virendra Desai

“I hope I shall see an end of him, for my soul- yet I know not why- hates nothing more than he.”

— William Shakespeare

“When you try to persistently abolish hatred, at that very moment...you lose focus on love.”

— Toba Beta

“Just as he still cared more for her than for any other creature, so did he more intensely and frequently hate her.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He carried that obsession with him always. And in the end, by its very wrongness, it saved his life.”

— Ford Madox Ford

“He was in conflict with himself. There was no enjoyment in the thought that he had escaped a great danger, and in the midst…

— Norbert Jacques

“There is more for us to gain through love than hate.”

— Suzy Kassem

“...desire had its exaggerated and dramatic pleasures, but he was bored by the endless scenes and recantations. Love was simply the same steady heartbeat…

— Robert Goolrick

“He hated it as if he were about to love it—unforgivingly, irrationally, sadly.”

— Mark Helprin