Quotes About Misunderstanding

El peor tipo de soledad en el mundo es la de ser malentendido. Puede llegar a provocar que uno pierda el contacto con la realidad".

Did you mount her? the agent asked, looking over. Langdon glanced up, certain he had misunderstood. I beg your pardon?

What's this lunatic talking about!?

She looked at me as if I might be one of them a spy from the world of the ignorant.

ASSUME is to make an ASS of U and ME.

The silence stretched. Finally Al added one more sentence that I have been thinking about ever since. 'And if you did it again,' he said, 'we would have to kill you again.' We stared at each other for some time after that; each convinced, I am sure, that the other was a total idiot.

Like your kind/ we usually destroy what we cannot understand

Marmon Hamlit on "AllNet Now!" issued the final deathblow: "Oh, the poetry thing from Whathisname—couldn't read it. Didn't try."    Tyrena

She does speak Bengali, doesn't she? Morrow had asked over the phone. Sure, I'd said. Actually, Amrita spoke Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, and a little Punjabi as well as German, Russian, and English, but not Bengali.

SOMETIMES SIRI SEEMED so ignorant it made me sick.

As was the case with so many young people I encountered these days, I could not tell if the boy was truly retarded or just pitifully ill educated. Most of the population under thirty appears to fall into one or the other category.

What typically escalates to conflict begins, as Vargo puts it, with "not communicating, making assumptions, and jumping to conclusions, sending a 'hard' message in ways that make it tough for people to hear what you're saying." Students

I wasn't just a fuck to them, any of them probably, is what I'm seeing. For every girl I thought I was uncomplicated sex, it wasn't. Put it this way: if you can't see the complication, you're probably it.

He thought she knew what he meant, but the biggest mistake you can make is thinking they know what you mean.

I thought it was one thing but it was the other, it was zero zero zero alone on the bus while you slept in the room I had to leave, and that's why we broke up.

I talk shit about everybody and then sulk when they don't call me, my friends fall away like I've dropped them out of an airplane, my ex-boyfriend thinks I'm Hitler when he sees me.

You know I want to be a directos, but you could never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed, is why we broke up.

language is sometimes a barrier instead of a pathway.

I started out the evening with every intention of being pleasant and making friends. But these days I have trouble getting through to people. I don't know if it's me or them, but any attempt at conversation usually fades away in a minute or two, and the barriers go up. Is it because they are afraid of me? Or is it that deep down they don't care and I feel the same about them?

Strauss again brought up my need to speak and wrtie simply and directly so that people will understand me. He reminds me that language is sometimes a barrier instead of a pathway. Ironic to find myself on the other side of the intellectual fence.

The more she talked that way, the worse I felt. She highlighted my awkwardness, my lack of knowledge about the right things to say and do. I was a blundering adolescent in her eyes, and she was trying to let me down easy.

Ele me lembra de que a linguagem é muitas vezes usada como uma barreira em vez de uma ferramenta.

Ele comete o mesmo erro que os outros quando olham para uma pessoa de mente débil e riem porque não entendem que existem sentimentos humanos envolvidos

How easy it is first to leap to a false conclusion about someone and then to view everything he does in light of that conclusion.