Misanthrope Quotes - Page 2

• ...love rather than fear...this radical philosophy is coming from me, an avowed misanthrope...surely there is hope for us all.

  Bill Hicks

  Philosophy, Radical, There Is Hope

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• A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature.

  Lucy Larcom

  Men, May

  Lucy Larcom (1892). “The Unseen Friend”

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• If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to.

  Florence King

  Suffering, Fool, Doe

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• I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.

  Alfred Nobel

  Philosophy, Idealist, Benevolent

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• Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Mankind, Forty

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• There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!

  Ivor Novello

  Goodness

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• Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos.

  Mindy Kaling

  Writing, Heart, People

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.142, Crown/Archetype

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• I cannot love evergreens - they are the misanthropes of nature. To them the spring brings no promise, the autumn no decline; they are cut off from the sweetest of all ties with their kind - sympathy. ... I will have no evergreens in my garden; when the inevitable winter comes, every beloved plant and favorite tree shall drop together - no solitary fir left to triumph over the companionship of decay.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Spring, Autumn, Cutting

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1834). “Francesca Carrara”, p.50

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• The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,--persons who are so sure that the world is going to ruin, that they resent every attempt to comfort them as an insult to their sagacity, and accordingly seek their chief consolation in being inconsolable, their chief pleasure in being displeased.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Class, Names, Knowing

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.199

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• A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed.

  Herman Melville

  Ocean, Generosity, Forests

  Herman Melville (1855). “Israel Potter: his fifty years of exile”, p.20

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• That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Girl, Confused, School

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• What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?

  Herman Melville

  Atheist, Kindness, Men

  Herman Melville (1857). “The Confidence-man: His Masquerade”, p.220

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• Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.

  Lord Byron

  Hate, Call Me, Hate Me

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head when I'm writing my books.

  Ian Rankin

  Book, Writing, Adventure

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• On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my mouth. And because of them, I, who was nothing and nobody, was a prince of Denmark, a maid of Verona, a queen of Egypt. I was a sour misanthrope, a beetling hypocrite, a conjurer's daughter, a mad and murderous king.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Daughter, Kings, Queens

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• I'm still a recluse. I still hate everyone. I'm still a misanthrope.

  Al Jourgensen

  Hate, Recluse, Stills

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• If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.

  Paul Theroux

  Home, Thinking, People

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• I was an incredibly misanthrope. I couldn't relate to people my age, and I'm not sure why, as I wasn't particularly smart or interesting

  Laura Marling

  Smart, People, Interesting

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• What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Clever, Men, Needs

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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