#misa

All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority, belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are 'sides,' and it is necessary for one side to beat another side, and of the utmost importance to walk up to a platform and receive from the hands of the Headmaster himself a highly ornamental pot. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#misandry #misogyny #sexism #gender

I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social. ↗

— Woody Allen

#misanthrope #social-anxiety #socialism

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt #change

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#woman

Now as I climb this mountain, from the top of which I shall see Africa, my mind is printed with brown-paper parcels and your faces. I have been stained by you and corrupted. You smelt so unpleasant, too, lining up outside doors to buy tickets. All were dressed in indeterminate shades of grey and brown, never even a blue feather pinned to a hat. None had the courage to be one thing rather than another. What dissolution of the soul you demanded in order to get through one day, what lies, bowings, scrapings, fluency and servility! How you chained me to one spot, one hour, one chair, and sat yourselves down opposite! How you snatched from me the white spaces that lie between hour and hour and rolled them into dirty pellets and tossed them into the wastepaper basket with your greasy paws. Yet those were my life. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#limitation #misanthropy #waste #courage

A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#funny #misanthropy #philosophy #poets #schopenhauer

I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but above all else, most of all, I believe in the one thing that can come out of people's mouths: vomit. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#misanthropy #art

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaining it. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#beauty

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#change #improvement #misattributed-to-leonard-cohen #motivational #success

Change is the only constant in life. ↗

— Heraclitus

#change