Detest Quote by Gustave Flaubert Download Open image “I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all” — Gustave Flaubert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beings Feel Detest Detest Fellow Feel Fellow Feels Fellow Beings Speech
I am overcome by a feeling of complete detachment. I am a mere object to these people. I am barely human any more. — Tabitha Suzuma Copy Share Image
If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
I detest my past, and anyone else's. I detest resignation, patience, professional heroism and obligatory beautiful feelings. I also detest the decorative arts, folklore,… — Rene Magritte Copy Share Image
Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not give up on people easily, but I also do not hold with people who feel that my presence or lack of one — Rona Copy Share Image
I finally figured out that I’m solitary by nature, but at the same time I know so many people; so many people think they… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind. I have… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
When you have kept yourself isolated, no one relates to you, you have no way of understanding actually who you are. — Sally Field Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel like I'm caught in a vise. Some people feel like I'm some kind of hero. Others hate me. — Rodney King Copy Share Image
I have this morbid fascination with being completely alienated from everybody, and a lot of the time I really do feel that way. — John Rzeznik Copy Share Image
As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“But her life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent spider, was weaving its web in the shadows,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“My robust lexicon notwithstanding, I struggle to find the right words to describe just how much I despise, hate, abhor, revile, detest and categorically… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
God wanted Israel, as He wants Christians, to learn to utterly abhor and detest anything that had the potential of coming between them and… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Sunnybrook Farm is now a parking lot; the petticoats are in the garbage can, where they belong in the modern world; and I detest… — Shirley Temple Copy Share Image
“The greater our own level of narcissism, the more we detest it in others.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
