Al Bruce

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“Nineteen twentieths of [mankind is] opaque and unenlightened. Intimacy with most people will make you acquainted with vices and errors and follies enough to make you despise them.”
― John Adams

tags: friendship, misanthropy, people, relationships, socializing

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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, Velocity

tags: agoraphobia, fear, hermit, misanthrope, misanthropy, social-isolation

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“I'm tired of this Earth,these people. I'm tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives”
― Dr. Manhattan (Watchmen Book)

tags: humanity-sucks, misanthropy, tired-of-people

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“The one thing in me more powerful than a general misanthropy is an inescapable compassion for individuals.”
― Jasper Sole

tags: compassion, misanthropy

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“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, Suicide Notes