“People tell me I'm a misanthrope just because I hate all mankind.” — Carl-John X Veraja Good Material Copy Share Image
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
I'm still a recluse. I still hate everyone. I'm still a misanthrope. — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
“Euripides "questioned everything. He was a misanthrope who preferred books to men.” — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope. — Florence King Copy Share Image
The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than hateful. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
“Many of those who society has pushed into pretending to like children do not even like people.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I was an incredibly misanthrope. I couldn't relate to people my age, and I'm not sure why, as I wasn't particularly smart… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
A savage review is much more entertaining for the reader than an admiring one; the little misanthrope in each of us relishes… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
“Samuel: What's a misanthrope? Two Bob: A misanthrope is a bugger who hates every other bugger. Samuel: Are we misanthropes? Arthur: Lord… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I could never find two people who are perfectly equal: one will always be more valuable than the other. And many people,… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“I alternate between feeling sympathetic toward humanity and being a misanthrope. When I'm sympathetic, it usually means I haven't been around people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a… — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
The big characters who occupy science, especially modern science, are all "off" in fundamental ways. I don't think that genius goes hand… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
I cannot love evergreens - they are the misanthropes of nature. To them the spring brings no promise, the autumn no decline;… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are misanthropes, just sitting thinking, ‘Oh, people are such a bunch… — Anneli Rufus Copy Share Image
Yet I experienced sometimes that the most sweet and tender, the most innocent and encouraging society may be found in any naturalobject,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,--persons who are so sure… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
“I found, increasingly, that I did not particularly care and I tried to fake a little kindness, a little sweetness, tried to… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“And at last, becoming a complete misanthrope, he used to live, spending his time in walking about the mountains; feeding on grasses… — Diogenes Copy Share Image
“Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused—in whose mind… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Whenever I tell people I'm a misanthrope they react as though that's a bad thing, the idiots. I live in London, for… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
My brother asked me once, 'Are you a misanthrope?' And I said, 'No, I just find people irritating.' — Craig Kilborn Copy Share Image
Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos. — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature. — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
