He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“Some confidants have wings and a beak, or four legs and a tail.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me. The Man from… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“He never cared too much for parties or people, but misanthropy could easily be cured by several alcoholic drinks.” — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“At that moment I realised all the things I miss, all the fascinating stories I don't get to hear, because I refuse… — Andrej Nikolaidis Copy Share Image
“1828 Turns forty. ‘After his fortieth year,’ he consoles himself, ‘any man of merit … will hardly be free from a certain touch of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Are you sick now?" "No." "Then what's wrong?" "I don't like people." "Do you think that's right?" "Probably not.” — Charles Bukowski 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 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
“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
“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
“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
I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I see In many an eye that measures me The mortal sickness of a mind Too unhappy to be kind. Undone with… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
“I am ashamed of the race of beings to which I belong. It is so cruel and bigoted, so hypocritical, so soulless… — J. Howard Moore 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
The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
“I think he just loved being with the bears because they didn't make him feel bad. I get it too. When he… — Michael Thomas Ford 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
“I killed little Esmerelda because I felt I owed it to myself and to the world in general. I had, after all,… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“Of course, I'm not quite ready to forsake all the products of society, just yet. I have my clothes, my books, etc...… — Mark X 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
“You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well known every-where in his true colors; his rolling eyes and… — Molière Copy Share Image
“8 April 1891 The obscenity of nostrils and mouths; the ignominious cupidity of smiles and women encountered in the street; the shifty… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
“His room was a sickly dual-tone of crimson and charcoal, like an Untitled Rothko, the colours bleeding into each other horribly and… — Moonshine Noire 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
“Many of those who society has pushed into pretending to like children do not even like people.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
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
“I wish I loved the human Race, I wish I loved its silly face, and when I'm introduced to one, I wish… — Anonymous 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
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