That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age. — Matthew McConaughey 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
...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
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
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
Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control. — Paul Theroux 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
“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
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
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
“Some book reviewer whose name I forget recently called me a 'vicious misanthrope' . . . or maybe it was a 'cynical… — Hunter S. Thompson 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
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
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where… — Moliere Copy Share Image
“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
It is the misanthrope who alone has clarity.By standing outside the huddles of man,he sees a lot,and what he often sees is… — Manu Joseph 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
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
“I never went downstairs to join my housemates around the television. I cooked dinner later than everyone else and carried the plate… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
“I don't want to talk about those things. I see the worst in people. I don't need to look past seeing them… — Paul Thomas Anderson 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
“By capitulating to life, this world has betrayed nothingness. . . . I resign from movement, and from my dreams. Absence! You… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“All the hate and scorn and love of a deep nature, such as the shy man is ever cursed by, fester and… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“My hate is general, I detest all men; Some because they are wicked and do evil, Others because they tolerate the wicked,… — Moliere Copy Share Image