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

~ Bill Hicks

Bill Hicks Humor Humour Misanthropy

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

~ Bill Hicks

Bill Hicks Humor Humour Misanthropy Perspective

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

~ Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson Humor Humour Mankind Misanthropy

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

~ Emil M. Cioran

Emil M. Cioran Misanthropy Philosophy

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

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Qualsiasi uomo notevole, chiunque cioè non appartenga a quei 5/6 dell'umanità dotati tanto miseramente dalla natura, rimarrà dopo i quarant'anni difficilmente esente da una certa traccia di misantropia.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer Misanthropy Philosophy

If I have a book that thinks for me, a pastor who acts as my conscience, a physician who prescribes my diet, and so on... then I have no need to exert myself. I have no need to think, if only I can pay; others will take care of that disagreeable business for me.

~ Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant Education Enlightenment Misanthropy Religion Thinking

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

~ Dean Koontz

Dean Koontz Agoraphobia Fear Hermit Misanthrope Misanthropy Social Isolation

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

Miranda July Friends Misanthropy People

You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.

~ Caspar David Friedrich

Caspar David Friedrich Asocial Misanthrope Misanthropy People Society

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

~ Novala Takemoto

Novala Takemoto Misanthropy People

I think he just loved being with the bears because they didn't make him feel bad. I get it too. When he was with the bears, they didn't care that he was kind of weird, or that he'd gotten into trouble for drinking too much and using drugs(which apparently he did a lot of). They didn't ask him a bunch of stupid questions about how he felt, or why he did what he did. They just let him be who he was.

~ Michael Thomas Ford

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

~ Marty Rubin

Marty Rubin Envy Greed Hate Humanity Misanthropy People

[Patricia Highsmith] was an extremely unbalanced person, extremely hostile and misanthropic and totally incapable of any kind of relationship, not just intimate ones. I felt sorry for her, because it wasn't her fault. There was something in her early days or whatever that made her incapable. She drove everybody away and people who really wanted to be friends ended up putting the phone down on her.It seemed to me as if she had to ape feelings and behaviour, like Ripley. Of course sometimes having no sense of social behaviour can be charming, but in her case it was alarming. I remember once, when she was trying to have a dinner party with people she barely knew, she deliberately leaned towards the candle on the table and set fire to her hair. People didn't know what to do as it was a very hostile act and the smell of singeing and burning filled the room.

~ Andrew Wilson

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

~ Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Humour Misanthropy Paraphrased

His room was a sickly dual-tone of crimson and charcoal, like an Untitled Rothko, the colours bleeding into each other horribly and then rather serenely. The overall effect was overwhelmingly unapologetic but it grew on you like a wart on your nose you didn't realise it was a part of your identity until one day it simply was. His room was his identity. Fiercely bold, avant-garde but never monotonous. He was red, he was black, he was bored, and he was fire. At least to me he seemed like fire. A tornado of fire that burned all in its wake leaving only the wretched brightness of annihilation. His room was where he charmed and disarmed us. We were his playthings. Nobody plays with fire and leaves unscarred. The fire soon seeps into chard and soot. The colours of his soul, his aura, and probably his heart if he didn't stop smoking.

~ Moonshine Noire

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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!

~ Walter Alexander Raleigh

Walter Alexander Raleigh Hatred Humanity Misanthropy Society

He was regarded merely as an eccentric employee of indifferent merit, and his post of deputy chief clerk was the highest he would ever reach. Well aware of this, he made it a rule never to show any zeal, except in special circumstances. It is true that in these cases his zeal was clothed with a spirit of vengeance directed against the whole human race—this being his second favourite occupation. Petitbidois would have liked to hold the reins of power. This being beyond his sphere, he utilized the small driblets of authority which came his way for the purpose of casting ridicule upon established law and order, by making it act as a sort of unintelligent and, if possible, malicious Providence. 'The world is an idiot place anyway,' he would say, 'so why worry? Life is just a lottery. Let us leave the decision to chance.

~ Gabriel Chevallier

Gabriel Chevallier Drudgery Misanthropy Petitbidois Work Zeal

Early in 1967 Highsmith's agent told her why her books did not sell in paperback in America. It was, said Patricia Schartle Myrer, because they were 'too subtle', combined with the fact that none of her characters were likeable. 'Perhaps it is because I don't like anyone,' Highsmith replied. 'My last books may be about animals'.

~ Andrew Wilson

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She had to fight against developing too combative a personality or becoming altogether a misanthrope. She suddenly caught herself. Misanthrope is someone who dislikes everybody, not just men.And they certainly had a word for someone who hates women: misogynist. But the male lexicographers had somehow neglected to coin a word for the dislike of men. They were almost entirely men themselves, she thought, and had been unable to imagine a market for such a word.

~ Carl Sagan

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We ought to punish pitilessly that shameful pretence of friendly intercourse. I like a man to be a man, and to show on all occasions the bottom of his heart in his discourse. Let that be the thing to speak, and never let our feelings be beneath vain compliments

~ Molière

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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 of empty words, who view every one in civilities

~ Molière

Molière Bootlicking Dishonesty Hypocrisy Misanthropy People Relationships Society Stereotypes Words

You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well known every-where in his true colors; his rolling eyes and his honeyed tones impose only on those who do not know him. People are aware that this low-bred fellow, who deserves to be pilloried, has, by the dirtiest jobs, made his way in the world; and that the splendid position he has acquired makes merit repine and virtue blush. Yet whatever dishonourable epithets may be launched against him everywhere, nobody defends his wretched honour. Call him a rogue, an infamous wretch, a confounded scoundrel if you like, all the world will say “yea, ” and no one contradicts you. But for all that, his bowing and scraping are welcome everywhere; he is received, smiled upon, and wriggles himself into all kinds of society; and, if any appointment is to be secured by intriguing, he will carry the day over a man of the greatest worth. Zounds! these are mortal stabs to me, to see vice parleyed with; and sometimes times I feel suddenly inclined to fly into a wilderness far from the approach of men.

~ Molière

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I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.

~ H.p. Lovecraft

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

~ Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis Friends Humor Misanthropy

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

~ Jasper Sole

Jasper Sole Compassion Misanthropy

The place was a truck stop town. Large 18 wheelers lined the sidewalks and cafes. Giant diesel motors roaring their exhaust into the cloudy night skies. Wearied looking truckers climbed into the cabs like captains of gigantic steel ships. She could not imagine anyone trying to maneuver such large metallic beasts all over the roads of the nation. While the idea of being behind the wheel with nothing but the comfort of the radio, and the isolation were appealing. The thought of fighting all the congested traffic in smog infested industrial waters of choking vapors killed any pleasant dreams of the occupation.

~ Jaime Allison Parker

Jaime Allison Parker Isolation Loneliness Misanthropy Nihilism Pollution

By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.

~ Warren Ellis

Warren Ellis Misanthropy Optimism Suicide

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

~ Maija Haavisto

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...And suddenly, from behind me, I hear the metaphysically abrupt arrival of the office boy. I feel like I could kill him for barging in on what I wasn't thinking. I turn around and look at him with a silence full of hatred, tense with latent homicide, my mind already hearing the voice he'll use to tell me something or other. He smiles from the other side of the room and says 'Good afternoon' in a loud voice. I hate him like the universe. My eyes are sore from imagining.

~ Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa Anger Interruption Introvert Misanthropy Silence

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.

~ Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant Human Nature Misanthropy Morality

There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of their fellows. Yet they are not averse to comfortable chairs and the latest periodicals. It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubbable men in town. No member is permitted to take the least notice of any other one. Save in the Stranger's Room, no talking is, under any circumstances, allowed, and three offenses, if brought to the notice of the committee, render the talker liable to expulsion. My brother was one of the founders, and I have myself found it a very soothing atmosphere.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

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You ever get the feeling the world's filling up with bastards? I do. What I want to know is what happens when all the bastards run out of people to crap on? What happens when all that's left in the world is bastards? . . . The golden rule. Screw unto others before they screw unto you.

~ William Hoffman

William Hoffman Greed Human Nature Misanthropy

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

~ Dean Koontz

Dean Koontz Instructions For Survival Misanthropy Philosophy Of Life Simple Life

Jam jamming,” Meghan chanted in a sing song voice. “I like the idea, the feel. I KNOW what you are getting at. Where does a sound end? Has the Earth been pumping billions upon billions of horrendous noises into the depths of space since the time primates began walking? Can you imagine all the noisy concerts, explosions of war, and thundering of bombs, all drifting endlessly into empty darkness? Can you imagine? For infinity? Frozen glaciers, devoid rocks, suddenly illuminated to be crushed by all that deafening din, waking the inhabitants of other planets. Jamming alien satellite signals. If there is life out there, it wants to destroy us....I must be really stoned to see this so clearly

~ Jaime Allison Parker

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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.

~ Molière

Molière Disappointment Misanthropy Solitude

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.

~ Jean Giono

Jean Giono Misanthropy Solitude

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 just looked in the eyes of the fellow travelers and seen how dull and lifeless their eyes are? Yours look like that too. You know why? 'Cause you're just as bland, you're just as fucking boring, there's nothing special about you. And trying to piggyback on the accomplishments of your race, or like, any fucking larger group really, is pathetic. You have to stand on individual merit and you just can't accept the fact that you suck. It's alright! I suck, Weber sucks, everyone sucks! We're all fucking shit, we suck dick, we're lame as fuck. And that's okay. That's fine.

~ T.j. Kirk

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Anna… envied Joan’s deep connection with the human race. She was a member of the club. Anna was half convinced she’d been begotten by a passing alien life-form on a human woman. It was as good an explanation as any for the sense she had of being an outsider.

~ Nevada Barr

Nevada Barr Humans Misanthropy Outsider
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