“If I have been more backward in seeking her society, it is because I do not like her, and my acquaintance amongst… — Sarah Harriet Burney 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
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 don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that,… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“No matter how far I try to travel from people, people always appear. Either they follow me, or they're already there, and… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It’s very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic. — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
...love rather than fear...this radical philosophy is coming from me, an avowed misanthrope...surely there is hope for us all. — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I… — Caspar David Friedrich 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
I'm still a recluse. I still hate everyone. I'm still a misanthrope. — Al Jourgensen 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
“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
My brother asked me once, 'Are you a misanthrope?' And I said, 'No, I just find people irritating.' — Craig Kilborn Copy Share Image
“After college, I started working in the gallery and found myself surrounded by a whole new set of people who had not… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
“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
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
“By capitulating to life, this world has betrayed nothingness. . . . I resign from movement, and from my dreams. Absence! You… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age. — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature. — Lucy Larcom 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
Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than hateful. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
