Being A Misanthrope Quotes

#1. We will only begin to forgive when we can look upon the wrongdoers as ourselves, neither better nor worse. We need to remember that we coexist as mortals in the world, together, the wronged and the wrongdoer, and that, in our common humanity, the situation could readily be reversed.

Leo Buscaglia

#2. Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.

Irving Layton

#3. I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#4. All male writers, incidentally, no matter how broke or otherwise objectionable, have pretty wives. Somebody should look into this.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

Charles Bukowski

#6. Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive.

Mary Whitehouse

#7. She gets a hundred for her body and a nickel for her soul.

Alice Cooper

#8. I don't think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently - so beyond how one is supposed to think.

Hanya Yanagihara

#9. So now Stephen must actually learn at first hand hwo straight can run the path of true love, in direct contradiction to the time-honoured proverb. Must realize more clearly than ever, that love is only permissible to those who are cut in every respect to life's pattern.

Radclyffe Hall

#10. Life was something you didn't argue with, because when it came down to it, whether you barracked for God or nothing at all, life was all there was. And death.

Tim Winton

#11. Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Douglas William Jerrold

#12. I have stopped being a misanthrope.

Irving Layton

#13. As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#14. Aiden turned to his tiny mate. "Meryn, baby, please don't kill me in my sleep.

Alanea Alder

#15. I alternate between feeling sympathetic toward humanity and being a misanthrope. When I'm sympathetic, it usually means I haven't been around people in awhile.

John Raptor

#16. He that drinks fast, pays slow.

Benjamin Franklin

#17. I miss the closet. Homosexuals, not to speak of the rest of society, were far better off when social pressure forced them to hide their activities.

Ron Paul

#18. Grief turns us inward, but compassion turns us outward, and that's what we need when grief threatens to crush us. The Bible says, "Carry each other's burdens" [Galatians 6:2 NIV].

Billy Graham

#19. I realised either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world.
And of course I was right.

Jack Kerouac