Famous curmudgeons quotations

   There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death.
 ~ by Fran Lebowitz

   I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
 ~ by W. Somerset Maugham

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Wise Words, Witty Proverbs
   I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
 ~ by William Makepeace Thackeray

   I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end.
 ~ by Fred Couples

   I love mankind - it's people I can't stand.
 ~ by Charles M. Schulz, Go Fly a Kite, Charlie Brown

   I see it all perfectly: there are two possibilities, one can either do this or do that. My honest opinion and friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it, you will regret both.
 ~ by Kierkegaard

   You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world.
 ~ by Octave Mirbeau, Torture Garden, The Mission, Chapter 8

   Not to be born at all would be the best thing for man, never to behold the sun's scorching rays; but if one is born, then one is to press as quickly as possible to the portals of Hades, and rest there under the earth.
 ~ by Thiognis

   I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began.
 ~ by William Hazlitt

   Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious.
 ~ by Edgar Saltus

   My mind's terrain has become exceedingly rough. Emotional scars are changing my internal geography faster than the mapmaker can keep pace. Wrong turns and dead ends abound, and I'm afraid someday I'll drown in a river I didn't know was there.
 ~ by D.H. Mondfleur

   There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.
 ~ by Ralph Waldo Emerson

   Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part, and does not believe in the play.
 ~ by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

   I do not believe in revealed religion - I will have nothing to do with your immortality; we are miserable enough in this life, without speculating on another.
 ~ by Lord Byron, 1778-1824, letter to Rev. Francis Hodgson, 1811

   The world bruises us all, but some heal faster than others - and some bleed to death.
 ~ by D.H. Mondfleur

   I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
 ~ by Robert Frost, The Lesson for Today, 1942

   There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
 ~ by Maya Angelou, PBS, 28 March 1988

   The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
 ~ by G.K. Chesterton

   He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind.
 ~ by Willa Cather

   We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
 ~ by Djuna Barnes

   I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
 ~ by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

   The mad are happy, the sane ignorant; those of us stuck on the sane side of madness or the mad fringe of sanity are in a purgatorial cage.
 ~ by Terri Guillemets

   [I] put the question directly to myself: Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you? And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, No!
 ~ by John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1909

   It is not a fragrant world.
 ~ by Raymond Chandler

   It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyze before we can live happily in this world.
 ~ by Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort



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