Men Quote by Anonymous

He hated the war; it threatened much more than his lifestyle or peace of mind. It continually destroyed the world of the imagination, the…

— Irene Nemirovsky

What the intellectual craves above all else is to be taken seriously, to be treated as a decisive force in shaping history. He is…

— Eric Hoffer

Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.

— Jon Krakauer

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

— Samuel Johnson

As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.

— Carlos Castaneda

He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his own heart and thinks…

— William George Jordan

He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself…

— Kurt Vonnegut

He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says,…

— Don DeLillo

He was a man who would never ask for sympathy. He was a man who sought only to do what was right. Such people…

— Steven Erikson

“At Times, even he admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it, and in moments of painful…

— Nicholas Sparks

His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels.…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw…

— Jack London