Misanthropy Quote by Sinclair Lewis Download Open image “He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.” — Sinclair Lewis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Misanthropy People Persons
He thought about his people without sentimentalily, with a strick closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
He thought about his people without sentimentality, with a strict closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Plenty of people didn't care for him much, but there is a huge difference between disliking somebody - maybe even disliking them a lot… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“What he had was a sense that few things mattered much. That few people are to be feared. And so he now faced all… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
He didn't like very many people any more, or very many things either. He preferred not to be this way, but there it was,… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station in life,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world… — Willa Sibert Cather Copy Share Image
“But he knew what was wrong with him; he was ashamed of himself and afraid of them- afraid of the society whe so despised.” — Ryünosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
“They loved him, or loved the thought of him, what they thought he was: a man who could easily have had a good life… — Donal Ryan Copy Share Image
What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues, illuminating and making glad again the dark… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“He had expected that traditionally Republican Vermont would give him too drearily easy a task in preaching Trowbridge. What he found was a dismaying… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“Day on day he waited. So much of a revolution for so many people is nothing but waiting. That is one reason why tourists… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“She continued it to Hugh, 'Darling, do you know what mother and you are going to find beyond the blue horizon rim?' 'What?' flatly.… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years? — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“I think perhaps we want a more conscientious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of always deferring hope to… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“The author says one character's definition of a classic is any book he'd heard of before he was thirty.” — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“Like all males, he hated to confess ignorance by asking directions,” — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm interested in stories which insist on a dog fails-to-eat-dog kind of world. I hate misanthropy, want to believe that there's a possibility that… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
I could never find two people who are perfectly equal: one will always be more valuable than the other. And many people, as a… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
“…in that moment, as he saw and smelled how irresistible its effect was and how with lightning speed it spread and made captives of… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“You are not special. You're just fucking not. You're a bland, boring motherfucker just like everybody else. You ever been to the mall and… — T.J. Kirk Copy Share Image
“There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers… — Molière Copy Share Image
Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
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… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
