Quotes Tagged With :misanthrope

I found, increasingly, that I did not particularly care and I tried to fake a little kindness, a little....

I alternate between feeling sympathetic toward humanity and being a misanthrope. When I'm sympathetic,....

...the chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself -....

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

You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate....

I am a misanthrope, but exceedingly benevolent; I am very cranky, and am a super-idealist. ... I can....

I never went downstairs to join my housemates around the television. I cooked dinner later than everyone....

Jesus to Pilate:"The trouble is," the bound man went on, not stopping by anyone, "that you are too closed....

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling....

[Patricia Highsmith] was a figure of contradictions: a lesbian who didn't particularly like women; a....