Misanthropic Quotes
18 quotes by 17 authors
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I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed.
— Bill Bryson
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I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed…
— Bill Bryson
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The most entertaining songs don't always come from a nice place. In songs where I think I'm being really sensitive, they seem quite boring actually.…
— Jarvis Cocker
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The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of…
— Jean Paul
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I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live…
— Caleb Carr
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For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak…
— Herman Melville
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Oh you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn, or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It's not even clear if catching fish…
— John Gierach
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I am a misanthropic humanist... Do I like people? They're great, IN THEORY.
— Bill Hicks
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People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may have…
— Richard Dawkins
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The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians…
— Garrison Keillor
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Yes, I'm reckless and sometime express no concern for my own well being, and I express a misanthropic view of the world, but to have…
— Marilyn Manson
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At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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The 'Rescue Me' gig was a unique opportunity to play a character - a misanthropic, angry guy - who was so contrary to how people…
— Michael J. Fox
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Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of…
— Boyd Rice
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Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit…
— Novalis
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In some cases, she was actively trying not to make friends, though she usually stopped short of being rude. (Uptight, tense, and mildly misanthropic? Yes.…
— Rainbow Rowell
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Snug misanthropic solitude is better than hit-or-miss congeniality Taken from 'An Alphabet for Gourmets'
— M.F.K. Fisher
Who Wrote These Misanthropic Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 18 Misanthropic Quotes as follows: