This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The rest is just sex, copulation, the perpetuation of the vile species.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Marry an outdoors woman. That way, if you have to throw her out into the yard for the night, she can still… — W.C. Fields Copy Share Image
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than hateful. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes. — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead. — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“... but the truth is that I dislike most men as much as I dislike women. If anything, I am an equal… — Andrew Davidson 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
“Hotel Waldhaus We had no luck with the weather and the guests at our table were repellent in every respect. They even… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
“Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it's… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these… — Molière Copy Share Image
I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“The people naturally adhere most to doctrines which demand the least self-exertion and the least use of their own reason, and which… — Immanuel Kant 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
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
“There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Their arrogance protected them against any liking for their fellow-man, against the slightest interest in the strangers sitting all about them, amidst… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are… — Florence King Copy Share Image
“The place was a truck stop town. Large 18 wheelers lined the sidewalks and cafes. Giant diesel motors roaring their exhaust into… — Jaime Allison Parker 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
“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
“Oh, misanthropy and sourness. Gary wanted to enjoy being a man of wealth and leisure, but the country was making it none… — Jonathan Franzen 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
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
“At that moment I realised all the things I miss, all the fascinating stories I don't get to hear, because I refuse… — Andrej Nikolaidis Copy Share Image
Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“He never cared too much for parties or people, but misanthropy could easily be cured by several alcoholic drinks.” — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
[F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“1828 Turns forty. ‘After his fortieth year,’ he consoles himself, ‘any man of merit … will hardly be free from a certain touch of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
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