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“I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It’s very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.”

Hard Hate Fall Falling In Love I Fall In Love Misanthrope

Author:Marilyn Manson

“A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.”

Stills Lines Fine Bitter Fearful Weary Fine Lines Hermits Misanthropy Recluse Misanthrope

Book:Velocity: A Novel

Source: Velocity: A Novel

“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.”

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Book:Sketches by Boz

Source: Sketches by Boz

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

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Author:Matthew McConaughey

“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”

People Age Interesting Smart Relate Not Sure Misanthrope

Author:Laura Marling

“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.”

People Hate Order Company Call Me Hate People Misanthropy Misanthrope

Author:Caspar David Friedrich

“I have stopped being a misanthrope.”

Book:The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes

Source: The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes

“Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.”

Self Mankind Madness Delusion Cowardice Egotism Meanness Self Delusion Misanthrope Mendacity

Book:The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes

Source: The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes

“It is the misanthrope who alone has clarity.By standing outside the huddles of man,he sees a lot,and what he often sees is the evidence that people are not as smart as dogs think they are.And he wants to see it time and again.In the fog of ambiguities and mysteries,he desperately searches for truths because truth usually shows humanity in a poor light”

People Thinking Men Want Shows Light Humanity Poor Mystery Dog Truth Is Smart Evidence Standing Clarity Standing Out Fog Ambiguity Search For Truth Misanthrope

Author:Manu Joseph

“Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the gorillas than if you had never set foot in Rwanda, Fossey, you pain-in-the-ass saint, I do not believe in prayers or souls, but I will pray for your soul, I will remember you for all of my days, in gratitude for that moment by the graves when all I felt was the pure, cleansing sadness of returning home and finding nothing but ghosts.”

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

Men May Misanthrope

Book:The Unseen Friend

Source: The Unseen Friend

“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.”

People Ifs Thinking Home Certain Stay At Home Misanthrope

Author:Paul Theroux

“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.”

Philosophy Screws Benevolent Idealist Misanthrope

Author:Alfred Nobel