Misanthropy Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Opinion, Evidence, Bases

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.54

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• Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than hateful.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Men, Hateful, Misanthrope

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849). “Poetical works”, p.255

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• 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, people don't like each other very much. And that goes for friends, too.

  Miranda July

  Crazy, People, World

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Todd Solondz

  People, Humanity, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.

  Moliere

  Hatred, Humanity, Twenties

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• Sombre thoughts and fancies often require a little real soil or substance to flourish in; they are the dark pine-trees which take root in, and frown over the rifts of the scathed and petrified heart, and are chiefly nourished by the rain of unavailing tears, and the vapors of fancy.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Real, Rain, Heart

  John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and books, or Records of thought and reading”, p.22

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• Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Inspirational, Funny, Sad

  "As I See Religion". Book by Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1932.

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• 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

  Kissing, Race, Squids

  Aldous Huxley (1992). “Ape and Essence: A Novel”, p.19, Ivan R. Dee

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• Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

  Mark Twain

  Integrity, Animal, Men

  Following the Equator (1897) ch. 27

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• 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 own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Fate, Thinking, Should Have

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

  Moliere

  Honesty, Heart, Men

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• 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.

  Eric Hoffer

  Race, Magic, Desire

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

  Dean Koontz

  Lines, Bitter, Misanthrope

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.50, Bantam

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• 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 we might all be redeemed, that hope deferred makes the soul sick, that our humanity is fragile, funny, common, crazy, full of the longing for love, the failure of love.

  Anthony Minghella

  Dog, Crazy, Hate

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud--and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Two, Feelings, Forgiving

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

  Emile M. Cioran

  Secret, Kind, Proportion

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

  Joseph Brodsky

  Race, Racism, Form

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• 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

  Dream, Personality, Limitless

  Jonathan Franzen (2010). “Freedom: A Novel”, p.445, Macmillan

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

  Sinclair Lewis

  People, Persons

  Sinclair Lewis (2011). “It Can't Happen Here (搶救美國)”, p.1276, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Hatred, Too Much

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• 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 their copies of Atlas Shrugged, they flail around, accusing those who would impede them of communism, fascism, religiosity, misanthropy, but knowing at heart that these restrictions are driven by something far more repulsive to the unrestrained man: the decencies we owe to other human beings.

  George Monbiot

  Hate, Heart, Men

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• 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 of negativity.'... The Brits don't merely enjoy misery, they get off on it.

  Eric Weiner

  Negativity, Misery, Kind

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• [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

  Arrogance, Tipping, Be Kind

  FaceBook post by Sherman Alexie from Oct 22, 2015

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

  Moliere

  Criticism, Locks, Good Enough

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• 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 to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Love, Hate, Two

  "Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review". Book by Thomas B. Macaulay, Vol. I, 1843.

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