Misanthrope Quotes
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“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.”
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“Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.”
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“My hate is general, I detest all men;
Some because they are wicked and do evil,
Others because they tolerate the wicked,
Refusing them the active vigorous scorn
Which vice should stimulate in virtuous minds.”
― The Misanthrope
Some because they are wicked and do evil,
Others because they tolerate the wicked,
Refusing them the active vigorous scorn
Which vice should stimulate in virtuous minds.”
― The Misanthrope
“I alternate between feeling sympathetic toward humanity and being a misanthrope. When I'm sympathetic, it usually means I haven't been around people in awhile.”
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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.”
― Velocity
― Velocity
“I don't want to talk about those things. I see the worst in people. I don't need to look past seeing them to get all I need. I've built my hatreds up over the years, little by little, Henry... to have you here gives me a second breath. I can't keep doing this on my own with these... people.
[laughs]”
― There Will Be Blood: Final Shooting Script
[laughs]”
― There Will Be Blood: Final Shooting Script
“I found, increasingly, that I did not particularly care and I tried to fake a little kindness, a little sweetness, tried to mirror Luna back at herself, but that exhausted me after a week and I concluded that I was not meant for this sort of thing, friends, friendliness, no, I wasn't meant for it.”
― Nobody Is Ever Missing
― Nobody Is Ever Missing
“I am not a good friend. I have never been capable of or willing to commit to the maintenance that the rules of friendship dictate. I cannot rmember bithdays. I do not want to meet for coffee. I will not host the baby shower. I won't text back because it's an eternal game of Ping-Pong, the texting. It never ends. I inevitably disappoint friends, so after enough of that, I decided I would stop trying. I don't want to live in constant debt. This is okay with me.”
― Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life
― Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life
“For me it was important to be alone; solitude was a prerequisite to being openly and joyfully susceptible and responsive to the world of leaves, light, birdsong, flowers, flowing water.”
― Upstream: Selected Essays
― Upstream: Selected Essays
“Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused— in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened— by the recurrence of Christmas.”
― Sketches by Boz
― Sketches by Boz
“I have tried the way of the misanthrope, the way of the deviant, the philosopher, the observer, the pretender. But there is one road I have not seriously considered walking down, have not permitted myself to. Perhaps it is time.”
― Maeve Fly
― Maeve Fly
“I love people but notin person”
― Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / Where the Crawdads Sing / Reasons to Stay Alive
― Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / Where the Crawdads Sing / Reasons to Stay Alive
“Whoever said Hell is other people was wrong. Hell is other peoplein your house.”
― Ballistic Kiss
― Ballistic Kiss
“Being a soldier or a police officer is one of the most common veils with which a person hides their thirst for killing people, or certain people.”
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“And it always seems to me,' he went on ruminatingly, 'that, after all, we are nothing better than interlopers on the earth, disfiguring and staining wherever we go.”
― Seaton's Aunt
― Seaton's Aunt
“Greg Feely/Ned Slade: Did you really shoot JFK? I didn't think chimpanzees lived that long.
Dmitri-9: Stupid, imperialist bouffant? Ugly face? That shit was asking for it!”
― The Filth
Dmitri-9: Stupid, imperialist bouffant? Ugly face? That shit was asking for it!”
― The Filth
“I know, I know, everyone wants peace, why should I want a war? I'm fed up, bored to death. Besides, my life is worth nothing. If worthwhile types like scientists and engineers die, they're a big loss to the country; my death would be a good thing. As it is, I have not done anything worth a dog's fart.
I often think I am a fly in a glass bottle, with light, but without any future, and I can't take out the cork to let myself out. Dammit, I often doubt, with the bad habits I have picked up these past few years, wether I could do an honest job of work in the factory. Its a good thing there aren't many people like me, or the country'd be in a bad way”
― Chinese Profiles
I often think I am a fly in a glass bottle, with light, but without any future, and I can't take out the cork to let myself out. Dammit, I often doubt, with the bad habits I have picked up these past few years, wether I could do an honest job of work in the factory. Its a good thing there aren't many people like me, or the country'd be in a bad way”
― Chinese Profiles
“My family has a farm, so from time to time my folks send me loads of vegetables. But as a creature of a consumer society, I prefer store bought bread and chocolates.”
― Solanin
― Solanin
“I have no idea what to do with myself. And while I wait for my epiphany, I feel the toxins collecting in my body. But I'm still young and dissatisfied. Constantly disgruntled by society and adults. I'm just your average worker in Tokyo.”
― Solanin
― Solanin
“Either way---the terrifying misanthrope is mine."
Liam edged past them with another rack of cupcakes. "Oh?" His face was alive with devilry, his dark skin creasing into lines of amusement around the light in his eyes. With a pointed chin jerk toward Dominic and very precise enunciation, he asked, "Which one?"
"The strawberries are infusing with the cherry brandy." It was the return of Dominic's most hard-nosed judging voice. Liam's grin widened. "Pulse them with the icing. We don't want it completely smooth."
"That's fortunate." His sous-chef got out a last shot before Aaron tentatively called out to Dominic. "From all I've seen so far---it won't be.”
― Battle Royal
Liam edged past them with another rack of cupcakes. "Oh?" His face was alive with devilry, his dark skin creasing into lines of amusement around the light in his eyes. With a pointed chin jerk toward Dominic and very precise enunciation, he asked, "Which one?"
"The strawberries are infusing with the cherry brandy." It was the return of Dominic's most hard-nosed judging voice. Liam's grin widened. "Pulse them with the icing. We don't want it completely smooth."
"That's fortunate." His sous-chef got out a last shot before Aaron tentatively called out to Dominic. "From all I've seen so far---it won't be.”
― Battle Royal
“Misfits, con artists, evildoers all had business cards. It was enough to make any man a bona fide misanthrope.”
― Pattaya 24/7
― Pattaya 24/7
“If I have been more backward in seeking her society, it is because I do not like her, and my acquaintance amongst those whom I do like is sufficiently extensive.”
― Traits of Nature
― Traits of Nature
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