I Hate and I Love Quotes

“I have lost you, my brother
And your death has ended
The spring season
Of my happiness,
our house is buried with you
And buried the laughter that you taught me.
There are no thoughts of love nor of poems
In my head
Since you died.”
― Catullus, I Hate and I Love

“What a woman tells her lover in desire
should be written out on air & running water.”
― Catullus, I Hate and I Love

“I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I'm torn in two.”
― Catullus, I Hate and I Love

“But your own tears blind you to mine.
I am not neglectful of friendship,
but we two squat in the same coracle,
we are both swamped by the same stormy waters,
I have not the gifts of a happy man. . . Often enough.”
― Catullus, I Hate and I Love

“I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.”
― Catullus, I Hate and I Love

“I, Catullus,
promise you
wine & wit &
all the laughter
of the table
should you provide
whatever food
or wine you’re able.
For, charmed Fabullus,
your old friend’s purse
is empty now
of all but cobwebs!”
― Catullus, I Hate and I Love

“Kiss me now a
thousand times &
now a hundred
more & then a
hundred & a
thousand more again
till with so many
hundred thousand
kisses you & I
shall both lose count
nor any can
from envy of
so much of kissing
put his finger
on the number
of sweet kisses
you of me &
I of you,
darling, have had.”
― Catullus, I Hate and I Love

“and may the Muse herself
turn as tolerant an eye upon these songs
in days to come.”
― Catullus, I Hate and I Love