The one thing in me more powerful than a general misanthropy is an inescapable compassion for individuals. — Jasper Sole 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
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
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
“Repeated and prolonged proximity to moribund logging communities set off my misanthropy.” — Mark Frost 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
A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the… — Herman Melville 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
“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
“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
“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
“The rest is just sex, copulation, the perpetuation of the vile species.” — Umberto Eco 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“We ought to punish pitilessly that shameful pretence of friendly intercourse. I like a man to be a man, and to show… — Moliere 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
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 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
