Misanthropy Quotes

25 Misanthropy quotes by 23 unique authors

Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy? — Joseph Brodsky
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
From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two great commandments were… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy. — William Hazlitt
Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can't celebrate humanity but I'm not out to indict it either. I just… — Todd Solondz
Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Regardless of its causes, thoughtlessly blaming the present is a weakness which, even if it is never outlawed, ought to be resisted. Though commonly flaunted… — Steven Pinker
Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us. — Emile M. Cioran
The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous. — Emile M. Cioran
I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes. — Bill Hicks
What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets. — Andre Malraux
You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it's not true. Generally,… — Miranda July
I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to… — Jonathan Swift
By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead. — Warren Ellis
As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy until I reached a kind of orgasm… — Eric Weiner
The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching… — George Monbiot
[F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at restaurants. — Sherman Alexie
The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage. — Jonathan Franzen
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
A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his… — Arthur Schopenhauer
How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind. I have then… — Mary Wollstonecraft
I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck. — Bill Hicks
The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much. — Aldous Huxley
I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy. — Edgar Allan Poe
He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons. — Sinclair Lewis

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