“A sight to touch e’en hatred’s self with pity.”— Sophocles Related Quotes “I have loved him too much not to hate”— Jean Racine “I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of all I find that I love. In order to get some of it down I have to love… too much of your life will be lost, its meaning lost, unless you approach it as much through love as through hate.”— Ralph Ellison “There are times when a man’s greatest need is to have someone to love, some focal point for his diffused emotions. Also there are times when the irritations, disappointments, and fears of life, restless as spermatozoids, must be released in hate.”— Carson McCullers