Clive Barker Quotes

At a brunch potluck, I realize that I do, in fact, hate everybody.

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

I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism.

I'm still a recluse. I still hate everyone. I'm still a misanthrope.

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

I don't like going out. I hate clubs. I hate being around too many people.

My father was a misanthrope who slept all day and stayed up all night so that he wouldn't have to see people. He ran a business with a large staff but would go there at night and leave things for them to do during the day when he wasn't there.

It must be terrible to have to live among people and not like human nature.

Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than hateful.

Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?

I've started to kind of hate people, and it's not because I have anything against them. It's just, I enjoy it. It's recreation.

I find human contact repulsive.

I don't like people. I don't like any kind of people. When you get them together in a big lump they all get nasty and dirty and full of trouble. So I don't like people including you. That's what a misanthropist is.

It’s just … everything. There are too many people. And I don’t fit in. I don’t know how to be. Nothing that I’m good at is the sort of thing that matters there. Being smart doesn’t matter—and being good with words. And when those things do matter, it’s only because people want something from me. Not because they want me.

You could drop me off in the middle of a sea of people, and I'm happy.

No, I'd probably end up spitting it out over everybody.

If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.

It is through our anger and hatred that we transform people into enemies.

Hate won't only destroy us. It will destroy these people that's hating as well.

If a dread of not being understood be hidden in the breasts of other young people to anything like the extent to which it used to be hidden in mine - which I consider probable, as I have no particular reason to suspect myself of having been a monstrosity - it is the key to many reservations.

I shouldn't leave the house or interact with people ever.

No one wants to be hated, in public, by lots of people.

I was too shy to be around real people. It wasn't like old ladies talking to plants.

Some people fear that technology will become more engaging than live human interactions. That's silly; technology is already way more interesting than other people.

It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving the truth.