“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
“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
“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
[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
Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around. — Charles Bukowski 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
The one thing in me more powerful than a general misanthropy is an inescapable compassion for individuals. — Jasper Sole Copy Share Image
The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous. — Anonymous 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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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