Literary notes about HATRED (AI summary)
Literary works frequently deploy the word "hatred" to illuminate the depths of internal conflict and social strife. In some narratives, it captures a personal descent into darkness—a character’s bitter, sleepless loathing of his surroundings reflects maddening inner torment [1], while in others it evolves into a catalyst for irreversible action, as seen when vindictive hatred directs an individual’s life-altering decisions [2]. Philosophical treatises explore its roots by contrasting it with love and reason, suggesting that such emotions spring from fundamentally different sources and often coexist with or counteract one another [3, 4]. Historical and political texts, meanwhile, invoke hatred to explain societal fractures and collective resentment, framing it as both an individual and institutional emotion that fuels division and revenge [5, 6].
- But his sleep had not refreshed him; he waked up bilious, irritable, ill-tempered, and looked with hatred at his room.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The feeling began and ended in reckless, vindictive, hopeless hatred of the man who was to marry her.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - If we consider the causes of love and hatred, we shall find they are very much diversifyed, and have not many things in common.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume - Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer - He was a man designed to be an object of intense hatred to the people; he was simply ruthless in his taxation.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - The Gothic kings and bishops at length discovered, that injuries will produce hatred, and that hatred will find the opportunity of revenge.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
