Misanthropy Quotes

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I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes.

I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.

I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

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 want to expose certain truths.

I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea level than down below.

Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?

He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.

[F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at restaurants.

Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.

A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.

Sensuality reconciles us with the human race. The misanthropy of the old is due in large part to the fading of the magic glow of desire.

Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.

The people naturally adhere most to doctrines which demand the least self-exertion and the least use of their own reason, and which can best accommodate their duties to their inclinations.

Do you hate people?”“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.

I seeIn many an eye that measures meThe mortal sickness of a mindToo unhappy to be kind.Undone with misery, all they canIs to hate their fello

I wish I was friends with things, " he said at last, "but I'm not. I never had anything to be friends with, and I can't bear people.

Most people are full of themselves and speak only the obnoxiously superficial, in other words they're annoying as hell

What's wrong with people is people. There's no cure for that.

Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.

Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apartWhere I’ll be free to have an honest heart.

Most people are so mind-bogglingly aggravating that it's impossible to overreact to them, even if that means killing yourself.

The one thing in me more powerful than a general misanthropy is an inescapable compassion for individuals.

I wish I loved the human Race, I wish I loved its silly face, and when I'm introduced to one, I wish I thought "what jolly fun"!