“The rest is just sex, copulation, the perpetuation of the vile species.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory. — William Shakespeare 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
“Most people are so mind-bogglingly aggravating that it's impossible to overreact to them, even if that means killing yourself.” — Maija Haavisto 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
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
Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sensuality reconciles us with the human race. The misanthropy of the old is due in large part to the fading of the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The one thing in me more powerful than a general misanthropy is an inescapable compassion for individuals. — Jasper Sole Copy Share Image
A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Anna… envied Joan’s deep connection with the human race. She was a member of the club. Anna was half convinced she’d been… — Nevada Barr 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
As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy until I reached a… — Eric Weiner 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
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
“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
“Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where… — Molière 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
I've gotta be honest, it is a little of a mystery to me. I consider myself very sentimental, very sensitive, but obviously… — Larry Fessenden 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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“You are not special. You're just fucking not. You're a bland, boring motherfucker just like everybody else. You ever been to the… — T.J. Kirk 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
“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
“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
