I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not'
Could be a summary of my book, 'Guilt Trip

It is better to be hated for what you are than be loved for something you are not.

It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people.

It's better to be HATED for who you ARE then Loved for who you ARE NOT!

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. — André Gide; French author, Nobel Prize winner, fearless self-explorer

It is better to be feared than loved.

It's better to be feared than loved if you cannot be both.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Mieux vaut être haï pour ce que l'on est, qu'aimé pour ce que l'on n'est pas.

It surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don't love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind. Even so, failing to love somebody is a failure.

It is better not to love, if loving only means hating others. That is no love. That is hell! If loving your own people means hating everybody else, it is the quintessence of selfishness and brutality, and the effect is that it will make you brutes. Therefore, better die working out your own natural religion than following another’s natural religion, however great it may appear to you

I've never been 'specially proud of myself, but I'd rather be the way I was born than anything else in the whole world.

have I not the reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.