Misanthropy Quotes
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Misanthropy Quotes & Sayings
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I wish I loved the human Race, I wish I loved its silly face, and when I'm introduced to one, I wish I thought "what jolly fun"!
— Walter Alexander Raleigh
Waking up is the strongest argument for full-blown misanthropy.
— M.J. Nicholls
What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
— Andre Malraux
Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.
— Jonathan Franzen
The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
— William Hazlitt
You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.
— Caspar David Friedrich
Most people are so mind-bogglingly aggravating that it's impossible to overreact to them, even if that means killing yourself.
— Maija Haavisto
Marry an outdoors woman. That way, if you have to throw her out into the yard for the night, she can still survive.
— W.C. Fields
Their mutual misanthropy had sealed the deal.
— Rob Thomas
Nero would be long since forgotten without his outbursts of bloody clowning. ~ Emil Cioran, A Short History of Decay
— Emil Cioran
Misanthropy is a slow suicide.
— Friedrich Schiller
People think they're interesting. That's their first mistake.
— Elizabeth McCracken
It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
— Sinclair Lewis
The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
— Emil Cioran
I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes.
— Bill Hicks
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[F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at restaurants.
— Sherman Alexie
I wish I was friends with things," he said at last, "but I'm not. I never had anything to be friends with, and I can't bear people.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
An attraction to large predators often seems to be associated with misanthropy, racism and the far right.
— George Monbiot
By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.
— Warren Ellis
The one thing in me more powerful than a general misanthropy is an inescapable compassion for individuals.
— Jasper Sole
Do you hate people?""I don't hate them ... I just feel better when they're not around. — Charles Bukowski
He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
— Sinclair Lewis
She freed me from my misanthropy, silence and inhibitions. From my compulsion to only make the right moves.
— Nina George
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Too many people not enough monkeys
— Anonymous
He never cared too much for parties or people, but misanthropy could easily be cured by several alcoholic drinks.
— Daniel J. Rice
Most people are full of themselves and speak only the obnoxiously superficial, in other words they're annoying as hell
— Novala Takemoto
I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.The Man from Archangel — Arthur Conan Doyle
Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?
— Joseph Brodsky
But the truth is that I dislike most men as much as I dislike women. If anything, I am an equal opportunity misanthropist.
— Andrew Davidson
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
— Samuel Johnson
I must ration my tendons when people near me.
— Sean Kilpatrick
