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
“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
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones. — Molière Copy Share Image
The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Repeated and prolonged proximity to moribund logging communities set off my misanthropy.” — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
Zombies are a great rhetorical prop to talk about people and paranoia, and they are a good vehicle for my misanthropy. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I could never find two people who are perfectly equal: one will always be more valuable than the other. And many people,… — Pentti Linkola 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“…in that moment, as he saw and smelled how irresistible its effect was and how with lightning speed it spread and made… — Patrick Süskind 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
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
“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
“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'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
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
“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
“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
“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
“Most people are full of themselves and speak only the obnoxiously superficial, in other words they're annoying as hell” — Novala Takemoto Copy Share Image
The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence… — Christian Nestell Bovee 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
“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
“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
