Misanthrope Quotes

“I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social.”
― Woody Allen

“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

“Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“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.”
― Moliere, The Misanthrope

“Sometimes I feel dead," I told her, "and I hate everybody.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“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.”
― John R Lindensmith

“A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.”
― Dean Koontz, 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]”
― Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood: Final Shooting Script

“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.”
― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays

“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.”
― Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing

“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.”
― C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

“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.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life

“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.”
― Charles Dickens, Sketches by Boz

“I love people but not in person”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / Where the Crawdads Sing / Reasons to Stay Alive

“You must be lonely."
"Only when I'm with other people.”
― Hiromi Goto, Chorus of Mushrooms

“Whoever said Hell is other people was wrong. Hell is other people in your house.”
― Richard Kadrey, Ballistic Kiss

“I saw myself alone in the furthest future I could imagine.”
― Catherine Raven, Fox & I

“I don't even like most people.”
― Andrew Martin, Early Work

“The universe has never seen a living being who loathed being alive as much as my father. His life was broken in seeking to prove how humanity could be controlled, and his death was a sacrifice to prove that the species was ultimately wretched.”
― Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Void Stalker

“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.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“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.”
― Walter de la Mare, 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!”
― Grant Morrison, The Filth

“Those who claim to need no one are selfish fools and liars.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“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”
― Zhang Xinxin, 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.”
― Inio Asano, 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.”
― Inio Asano, 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.”
― Lucy Parker, Battle Royal

“Misfits, con artists, evildoers all had business cards. It was enough to make any man a bona fide misanthrope.”
― Christopher G. Moore, 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.”
― Sarah Harriet Burney, Traits of Nature

“Many of those who society has pushed into pretending to like children do not even like people.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana