Misanthropic Quotes
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“I become quite melancholy and deeply grieved to see men behave to each other as they do. Everywhere I find nothing but base flattery, injustice , self-interest, deceit and roguery. I cannot bear it any longer; I'm furious; and my intention is to break with all mankind.”
― The Misanthrope
― The Misanthrope
“You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well-known everywhere in his true colors; his rolling eyes and his honeyed tones impose only on those who do not know him.”
― The Misanthrope
― The Misanthrope
“I always called back to cancel, which I hated doing because I hated talking to people.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“Until now he had thought that it was the world in general he had wanted to squirm away from. But it was not the world, it was the people in it.”
― Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
― Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
“It was already getting dark out, but I kept my sunglasses on. I didn't want to have to look anybody in the eye. I didn't want to relate to anybody too keenly. Plus, the fluorescent lights at the drug store were blinding. If I could have purchased my medications from a vending machine, I would have paid double for them.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“One might have all sorts of reasons for avoiding people. It's none of our business.”
― The Green Knight
― The Green Knight
“She doesn't want to see anyone. She's happy like that, I think. Always relieved at the end of a visit.”
― Mr. Fox
― Mr. Fox
“I have seen much of human beings over a long period, and I have learnt how little good to expect from them.”
― The Black Prince
― The Black Prince
“I love people but not in person”
― Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / Where the Crawdads Sing / Reasons to Stay Alive
― Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / Where the Crawdads Sing / Reasons to Stay Alive
“I had no desire to be seen by anyone, or talk to anyone. Sometimes out walking I would be in such a peculiar state of mind that I would rush home at the merest hint of another person.”
― The Secret Scripture
― The Secret Scripture
“If this belief from heaven be sent, If such be nature's holy plan, Have I not reason to lament what man has made of man?”
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“What I really wanted just then was to put Georgie in cold storage. It is unfortunate that other human beings cannot be conveniently immobilized.”
― A Severed Head
― A Severed Head
“I’ve fostered a substantial, almost protective affection for this particular group. These aren’t just any fifty people I don’t care about, these are my fifty people I don’t care about.”
― Dating Disasters of Emma Nash
― Dating Disasters of Emma Nash
“It did not fear any god the people constructed from marble and stone. It thrived on demoralizing the frightened prayers of the weak that clung to sanctuary walls. Its intoxication found in the terror, the superstition, and worship that fed its merciless existence. The night sky provided the nocturnal shelter where it walked freely.
The festivals of the changing seasons, reminding the mere mortals their time upon its fields were short. Brief in comparison to the thousands of years that it casually passed. It ruled the Earth, long before the human animals learned to conquer shelter and formulate abstract thoughts. In the cave paintings of the most primitive, they feared to paint its imagery on stone.”
― Storms In the Distant North
The festivals of the changing seasons, reminding the mere mortals their time upon its fields were short. Brief in comparison to the thousands of years that it casually passed. It ruled the Earth, long before the human animals learned to conquer shelter and formulate abstract thoughts. In the cave paintings of the most primitive, they feared to paint its imagery on stone.”
― Storms In the Distant North
“Some humans have failed to evolve with the rest of their species, and choose to be Neanderthalic; primitive and egregiously narrowminded.”
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