I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

How can two people hate so much without knowing each other?

In marriage the greatest hatred that is possible between human beings can be generated, perhaps because of the constant proximity, perhaps because once there was love. The intimacy is still there, even though the love element has disappeared. So a will to power, a struggle for domination, comes into being.

A miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.

In spite of their love, they had made each other's life a hell. The fact that they loved each other was merely proof that the fault lay not in themselves, in their behavior or inconstancy of feeling, but rather in their incompatibility: he was strong and she was weak.

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure;
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

When people hate with all that energy, it is something in themselves they are hating.

The worst thing about love between human beings is that when you are prepared to love them they don't want it; when they do its you who can't bear the idea.

That is the natural disposition of the sex; to disdain those who adore them, and love those by whom they are abhorred.

I know people can be awful dooms for each other.

the follies of two when they clash together in the same point, are the most hateful ill.

The things you hate about others are the things you cannot see in yourself.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.