Misanthrope Quotes

25 quotes by 24 authors

I was an incredibly misanthrope. I couldn't relate to people my age, and I'm not sure why, as I wasn't particularly smart or interesting — Laura Marling
You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their… — Caspar David Friedrich
I have stopped being a misanthrope. — Irving Layton
Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope. — Irving Layton
It is the misanthrope who alone has clarity.By standing outside the huddles of man,he sees a lot,and what he often sees is the evidence that… — Manu Joseph
Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the gorillas than if… — Robert M. Sapolsky
A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature. — Lucy Larcom
If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think. — Paul Theroux
There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness! — Ivor Novello
I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head… — Ian Rankin
I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food. — Alfred Nobel
Whenever I tell people I'm a misanthrope they react as though that's a bad thing, the idiots. I live in London, for God's sake. Have… — Charlie Brooker
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of… — Giacomo Leopardi
I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and… — Charles Bukowski
Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them. — Lord Byron
I could never find two people who are perfectly equal: one will always be more valuable than the other. And many people, as a matter… — Pentti Linkola
On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my… — Jennifer Donnelly
Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos. — Mindy Kaling
Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are misanthropes, just sitting thinking, â€˜Oh, people are such a bunch of assholes,â€™ but… — Anneli Rufus
Betrayed and wronged in everything, Iâ€™ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where Iâ€™ll be free… — Moliere

Who Wrote These Misanthrope Quotes

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