“Some confidants have wings and a beak, or four legs and a tail.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons. — Sinclair Lewis 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
The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“Most people are full of themselves and speak only the obnoxiously superficial, in other words they're annoying as hell” — Novala Takemoto Copy Share Image
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones. — Molière Copy Share Image
The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Repeated and prolonged proximity to moribund logging communities set off my misanthropy.” — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
Zombies are a great rhetorical prop to talk about people and paranoia, and they are a good vehicle for my misanthropy. — Colson Whitehead 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
I'm interested in stories which insist on a dog fails-to-eat-dog kind of world. I hate misanthropy, want to believe that there's a… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind.… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Sombre thoughts and fancies often require a little real soil or substance to flourish in; they are the dark pine-trees which take… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can't celebrate humanity but I'm not out to indict it… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
Regardless of its causes, thoughtlessly blaming the present is a weakness which, even if it is never outlawed, ought to be resisted.… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity… — Moliere Copy Share Image
“I see In many an eye that measures me The mortal sickness of a mind Too unhappy to be kind. Undone with… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
“Misanthropist’s manifesto: Do not tell a friend what your enemy ought not to know. Giving way neither to love nor hate is… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“…in that moment, as he saw and smelled how irresistible its effect was and how with lightning speed it spread and made… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
I don't care if you're a parent giving to a child, a worker to a company, or a romantic to a lover,… — John Frederick Demartini Copy Share Image
“I am ashamed of the race of beings to which I belong. It is so cruel and bigoted, so hypocritical, so soulless… — J. Howard Moore Copy Share Image
“There's a strange contradiction revealed by the naivete and kindness demonstrated by humanity when faced with the universe: On Earth, humankind can… — Cixin Liu Copy Share Image
“Of course, I'm not quite ready to forsake all the products of society, just yet. I have my clothes, my books, etc...… — Mark X Copy Share Image
“I killed little Esmerelda because I felt I owed it to myself and to the world in general. I had, after all,… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“I'd take cyanide no problem if it was that or throwing a cat out in the street, even a moth-eaten, mangy, caterwauling… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“His room was a sickly dual-tone of crimson and charcoal, like an Untitled Rothko, the colours bleeding into each other horribly and… — Moonshine Noire Copy Share Image
“8 April 1891 The obscenity of nostrils and mouths; the ignominious cupidity of smiles and women encountered in the street; the shifty… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
“You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well known every-where in his true colors; his rolling eyes and… — Molière Copy Share Image
“There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“If the bulls were allowed to increase their knowledge as the bullfighter does, and if those bulls which are not killed in… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Jam jamming,” Meghan chanted in a sing song voice. “I like the idea, the feel. I KNOW what you are getting at.… — Jaime Allison Parker Copy Share Image
“Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget it, or bear… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
“I cant take it like this much longer, Milt," Karen said muffledly into the big CKC shirt with its male smell, allowing… — James Jones Copy Share Image
