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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

I had sucked on the tit of disillusionment and teethed on the bitter root of cynicism. I was on the way to the misanthropy that would sour me. — Norman Lock

The earth is another form of hell, and men are its demons — Anonymous

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

I was not okay for one thing.For another, I'd passed from simple misanthropy to nihilism, death of the spirit and beyond. — T.C. Boyle

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

Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer. — Moliere

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

Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us. — Emil Cioran

Sensuality reconciles us with the human race. The misanthropy of the old is due in large part to the fading of the magic glow of desire. — Eric Hoffer

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

[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 don't need to keep my misanthropy in check. It runs wild. — Amy Zhang

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

What's wrong with people is people. There's no cure for that. — Marty Rubin

I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck. — Bill Hicks

Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind. — Nicolas Chamfort

A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope. — Dean Koontz

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

Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have. — Dean Koontz