Misanthropy Quote by Alain de Botton

“Perhaps his taciturnity hid a contempt for the human race which had abandoned the great dreams of his youth and now wallowed in sluggish…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“His error lay in supposing that this age, more than any past or future one, is destined to see the tattered garments of Antiquity…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“today he felt life, youth, people slipping away from him, without being able to hold on to any of them, left with the blind…

— Albert Camus

“[...] perhaps these thirty years of revolution had taught him that men are unfit for liberty, and he thought that he had spent his…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot become…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He was not ill-fitted to be the head and representative of a community which owed its origin and progress, and its present state of…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The hundred-year-old man had never let himself be irritated by people, even when there was a good reason to be, and he was not…

— Jonas Jonasson

“A man devoted time to what mattered to him—to what he deemed worthy of his attention.”

— Gena Showalter

“At the age he had attained with his life span short before him he had begun to look upon the human world with the…

— Paulette Jiles

“He slowed his pace a little. He was thirty and there was grey in his hair, yet he had a queer feeling that he…

— George Orwell

“He had a high opinion of his own insight, a weakness excusable in him as he was fifty, an age at which a clever…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“At thirty a man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his…

— Edward Young