Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed.

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

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.

I got fed up with the human race, really. I got a very negative feeling about human potentials. And for a while, I thought I might write a book without any human beings in it whatsoever.

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

I'm rather a cynic, I suppose. I do not believe in the niceness of humanity.

I don't think the world is a particularly pleasant place.

The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.

Happiness? No, it's not there for me.

I never loved the world around me as it was.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope.

Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.

I find myself bitter, defensive, and more misanthropic than I care to admit.

There's a lot to be said for misanthropy.

A pretty face had been damaged by acne scars and she wore and extra forty pounds on her frame like a threat. Her eyes were dull with anger disguised as apathy. If she kept on her current path, she'd grow into the type of person who fed her kids Doritos for breakfast and purchased angry bumper stickers with lots of exclamation points. But right now, she was just another in a long line of pissed-off small-town girls with a shitty outlook.

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

I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.

I like to watch the news, because I don't like people very much and when you watch the news... if you ever had an idea that people were really terrible, you could watch the news and know that you're right.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

I just don't want to be around people who don't hate everything in their life right now.

I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy.

Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.