Family Quote by Nick Cave

There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!

— Ivor Novello

Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are likely to…

— Florence King

“Wilbur and Orville were rapacious misanthropes who were all too happy to stop progress in its tracks by stifling brilliant innovators, particularly Curtiss, all…

— Lawrence Goldstone

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred…

— Giacomo Leopardi

Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are likely tomeet.…

— Anonymous

“There are two times of day in which artistic misanthropes thrive: after everyone else goes to bed, and before everyone else wakes up.”

— Brandon Gene Petit

“As in the case of many misanthropes, his disdain for people led him into a profession designed to serve them.”

— Toni Morrison

If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.

— Florence King

“I am a misanthrope, but exceedingly benevolent; I am very cranky, and am a super-idealist. ... I can digest philosophy better than food.”

— Alfred Bernhard Nobel

“And at last, becoming a complete misanthrope, he used to live, spending his time in walking about the mountains; feeding on grasses and plants,…

— Diogenes

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…

— Charles Bukowski

Yet I experienced sometimes that the most sweet and tender, the most innocent and encouraging society may be found in any naturalobject, even for…

— Henry David Thoreau