Love Vs Hate Quotes

“It's so easy to get people to hate one another. That's what makes love so impossible to understand. Hate is so simple that it always ought to win. It's an uneven fight.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“Pressure has the power to create a diamond, but it has to be the "right" pressure.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Certain words, certain expressions. Things like ‘I love you’ and ‘I hate you.’ They’re big traps for actors. They can tempt you away from the connection you’ve developed with your partner and lead you into swamplands of clichéd performing. ‘Love’ and ‘hate’ are powerful words, and for some reason, we feel like we must fulfill them—and other words like them—whenever we say them. But we don’t have to.”

Bill turns to Adam. “Actors hit that line—‘you know I’m absolutely crazy about you. Don’t you?’—and go all kablooey. Your head’s saying, ‘How can I not say a line like that without letting love swim into the duck pond? But inside you’re saying, ‘To hell will love! This girl’s really pissed me off, breaking off an important date like that.’ Follow your true inner response. It will never lead you astray. You’ll be bubbling up with impatience and irritation and you’ll say a line like that and it’ll have new meaning. It’ll have your meaning. Remember: Bad actors consciously adjust their inner responses to what they think the lines of the text require. Good actors adjust the text to the inner emotional line created by their sensitized responses to the other actor.”

Adam says, “I get it. I was trying to act the words.”

Bill nods. “You were manipulating yourself, cutting off our real response in order to live up to what you thought the text demanded of you. But any line can mean anything, and come out of you in any way.”
― William Esper, The Actor's Art and Craft: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique

“Just as extreme love, in a marriage, for example, can turn to hate. They're the same coin, just different sides.”
― William Kuhn, Mrs Queen Takes the Train

“Fear masquerades as a "just cause" while devouring all forms of freedom and dignity.”
― Katy Tackes, Each Time She Wakes

“Well, have you ever known someone who is nice and nasty, who makes you love them one minute and hate them the next? Who makes you feel wonderful and terrible and you never know which one it is going to be?”
― Daisy Goodwin, The American Heiress

“People who hated often had to work quite hard at keeping their hatred warm.”
― Alexander McCall Smith

“Where hate is uprooted, love grows.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Love is contagious. Hate is much more!”
― John Joclebs Bassey, Night of a Thousand Thoughts