Top 76 Quotes About Misanthropy
#1. Their mutual misanthropy had sealed the deal.
Rob Thomas
#2. The one thing in me more powerful than a general misanthropy is an inescapable compassion for individuals.
Jasper Sole
#3. Regardless of its causes, thoughtlessly blaming the present is a weakness which, even if it is never outlawed, ought to be resisted. Though commonly flaunted as a sign of sophistication, it can be an opportunity for one-upmanship and an excuse for misanthropy, especially against the young.
Steven Pinker
#4. She freed me from my misanthropy, silence and inhibitions. From my compulsion to only make the right moves.
Nina George
#5. [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
#6. Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
Hanya Yanagihara
#8. Waking up is the strongest argument for full-blown misanthropy.
M.J. Nicholls
#9. From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#10. Matheus thought he ranked fairly high on the scowling index, but looking at Zeb made him realize how much more he had to learn. Whole volumes of misanthropy were written into the eyebrows alone.
Amy Fecteau
#11. Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
William Hazlitt
#12. I don't need to keep my misanthropy in check. It runs wild.
Amy Zhang
#13. His eyebrows arched under a single, pensive line and his eyes themselves were imprinted with deep sadness, behind which from time to time could be seen dark flashes of misanthropy and hatred.
Alexandre Dumas
#14. Surely not without reason, when pirates, highwaymen, and other varieties of the extensive genus Marauder, are the only beau ideal of the active, as splenetic and railing misanthropy is of the speculative energy.
Thomas Love Peacock
#15. 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
#16. 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
#18. 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
#19. He never cared too much for parties or people, but misanthropy could easily be cured by several alcoholic drinks.
Daniel J. Rice
#20. As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy until I reached a kind of orgasm of negativity.' ... The Brits don't merely enjoy misery, they get off on it.
Eric Weiner
#21. I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.
Edgar Allan Poe
#22. An attraction to large predators often seems to be associated with misanthropy, racism and the far right.
George Monbiot
#23. Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can't celebrate humanity but I'm not out to indict it either. I just want to expose certain truths.
Todd Solondz
#24. 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
#25. How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind. I have then considered myself as a particle broken off from the grand mass of mankind.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#26. Being late was a special kind of modern suffering, with blended elements of rising tension, self-blame, self-pity, misanthropy, and a yearning for what could not be had outside theoretical physics: time reversal.
Ian McEwan
#27. Self-contempt is a serpent that ever gnaws at one's breath, sucking the life-blood from one's own heart and mixing it with the poison of misanthropy and despair.
Karl Marx
#29. 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
#30. Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
Emil Cioran
#31. Nero would be long since forgotten without his outbursts of bloody clowning. ~ Emil Cioran, A Short History of Decay
Emil Cioran
#32. Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike. And I've got to live with these fuckers for the rest of my life, I thought.
Charles Bukowski
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. Do you hate people?"
"I don't hate them ... I just feel better when they're not around.
Charles Bukowski
#36. I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
Samuel Johnson
#37. Anna ... envied Joan's deep connection with the human race. She was a member of the club. Anna was half convinced she'd been begotten by a passing alien life-form on a human woman. It was as good an explanation as any for the sense she had of being an outsider.
Nevada Barr
#38. I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.
Jonathan Swift
#39. I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.
Bill Hicks
#40. The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
Emil Cioran
#41. 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
#42. Nineteen twentieths of [mankind is] opaque and unenlightened. Intimacy with most people will make you acquainted with vices and errors and follies enough to make you despise them.
John Adams
#43. 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
#44. You ever get the feeling the world's filling up with bastards? I do. What I want to know is what happens when all the bastards run out of people to crap on? What happens when all that's left in the world is bastards? ... The golden rule. Screw unto others before they screw unto you.
William Hoffman
#45. If I have a book that thinks for me, a pastor who acts as my conscience, a physician who prescribes my diet, and so on... then I have no need to exert myself. I have no need to think, if only I can pay; others will take care of that disagreeable business for me.
Immanuel Kant
#46. Most people are full of themselves and speak only the obnoxiously superficial, in other words they're annoying as hell
Novala Takemoto
#47. 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
#48. I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.
H.P. Lovecraft
#49. The earth is another form of hell, and men are its demons
Anonymous
#50. Hotel Waldhaus
We had no luck with the weather and the guests at our table were repellent in every respect. They even ruined Nietzsche for us. Even after they had had a fatal car accident and had been laid out in the church in Sils, we still hated them.
Thomas Bernhard
#51. 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
#52. He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
Sinclair Lewis
#53. 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
#54. Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.
Moliere
#55. What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
Andre Malraux
#56. We ought to punish pitilessly that shameful pretence of friendly intercourse. I like a man to be a man, and to show on all occasions the bottom of his heart in his discourse. Let that be the thing to speak, and never let our feelings be beneath vain compliments
Moliere
#57. What's wrong with people is people. There's no cure for that.
Marty Rubin
#58. Most people are so mind-bogglingly aggravating that it's impossible to overreact to them, even if that means killing yourself.
Maija Haavisto
#60. A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#61. Weapons of Mass Destruction: Radioactive, Biological, or Chemical weapons capable of causing mass casualties and great destruction.
I wonder why humans aren't on the list?
Jorge Angeles
#62. People diminish me;
the longer I sit and listen to them
the more empty I feel but I don't get
the idea that they feel empty, I feel
that they enjoy the sound from their
mouths.
Charles Bukowski
#63. I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea level than down below.
Jean Giono
#64. There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of empty words, who view every one in civilities
Moliere
#65. The people naturally adhere most to doctrines which demand the least self-exertion and the least use of their own reason, and which can best accommodate their duties to their inclinations.
Immanuel Kant
#67. Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
Nicolas Chamfort
#68. Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.
Dean Koontz
#69. Betrayed and wronged in everything,
I'll flee this bitter world where vice is king,
And seek some spot unpeopled and apart
Where I'll be free to have an honest heart.
Moliere
#70. I could never find two people who are perfectly equal: one will always be more valuable than the other. And many people, as a matter of fact, simply have no value.
Pentti Linkola
#71. I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but above all else, most of all, I believe in the one thing that can come out of people's mouths: vomit.
Dennis Potter
#72. You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it's not true. Generally, people don't like each other very much. And that goes for friends, too.
Miranda July
#73. I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes.
Bill Hicks
#74. Too many people not enough monkeys
Anonymous
#75. By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.
Warren Ellis
#76. A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.
Dean Koontz
