Do you hate people?——I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.

You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it's not true. Generally, people don't like each other very much. And that goes for friends, too.

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

If I have a book that thinks for me, a pastor who acts as my conscience, a physician who prescribes my diet, and so on... then I have no need to exert myself. I have no need to think, if only I can pay; others will take care of that disagreeable business for me.

Qualsiasi uomo notevole, chiunque cioè non appartenga a quei 5/6 dell'umanità dotati tanto miseramente dalla natura, rimarrà dopo i quarant'anni difficilmente esente da una certa traccia di misantropia.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.

I'm tired of this back-slappin' isn't humanity neat bullshit. We're a virus with shoes.

Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

True misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world: because it is practical experience of the world and not philosophy that makes men hate.

I love mankind it's people I can't stand.