Quotes About Misunderstanding

Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding, Reflecting a pocket-torch of observation Upon each other's opacity Neglecting all the admonitions From the world around the corner

Harry: "I tell you, it is not me you are looking at, Not me you are grinning at, not me your confidential looks Incriminate, but that other person, if person, You thought I was: let your necrophily Feed upon that carcase

Would it have been worthwhile If one settling a pillow by her head should say: That is not what I meant at all That is not it at all

Lynn wanted to say she was sorry, but she couldn't seem to speak around the foot in her mouth.

Oh, Daja, moaned Jory, you sound just like my parents. She ran from the schoolroom. Well, there's no reason to insult me, muttered Daja, half offended.

Well, no, but everyone says they do." Someday I must read this scholar Everyone, she thought as she bit her tongue to keep from giving a rude answer. He seems to have written so much—all of it wrong.

She loved bats, but had learned years ago that few humans agreed.

I thought I wronged you in that garden, spoke out of turn. I came to beg your pardon, but you make very difficult for me.

Acknowledged differences may create mutual respect, but hazy misunderstandings bring forth nothing but prejudice and rejection.

When I had that attack of pleurosis - he asked me what was the matter when I came back. I said pleurosis - he thought that I said Blue Roses! So that's what he always called me after that. Whenever he saw me, he'd holler, Hello, Blue Roses!

Finally, she heard Simon take a long, ragged breath, and say, "I know I'm going to regret asking you this. In fact, I regret it already, but why exactly did you assume I was"—

I'm sorry it turned out this way, Dad. It's not what I wanted.

Puck's eyes gleamed, feral and menacing. Oh, I don't know, princess. Maybe it was because I was stupid enough to care about you. Maybe I actually thought I had a chance. Silly me, thinking that one little kiss meant anything to you.

You would never understand, Kim. You think I'm normal; you wish I was.

what harm could come from just talking to someone? I learned never to ask that question again because inevitably you'll get an answer and usually not the one you want.

You know that dejection that comes upon you when you realize that the person you're talking to might as well be from Jupiter, for all the chance you have of making them get what you're saying? I hate that.

Children always take their own parents for idiots.

Tengo horror de que me estimen por lo que no soy; que una persona como usted simpatice por un sucio malentendido.

Claudia lo miró y desvió los ojos. El tono hosco con que él había hablado le era familiar, era el tono de los hombres irritados por las sutilezas que no podían comprender y, sobre todo, aceptar.

Sure, I liked girls but I was always too terrified to speak to them unless we were arguing or I was calling them stupidos, which was one of my favorite words that year.

Waited for my brother and didn't talk to anybody and nobody talked to her, because she'd always been one of those quiet, semi-retarded girls who you couldn't talk to without being dragged into a whirlpool of dumb stories.

Auntie had nothing to say to that. Whatever was on this man's mind, it had nothing to do with her. There were times when you couldn't fix what was broken with words, and this looked like one of those times.

Hey, tell me, when did this conversation go completely whoosh?

I really don't understand why people go on about how wonderful the truth is. In my experience, all it does is make trouble.