Quotes About Misunderstanding

I can fill a whole book to tell you how I feel about you, but I know you won't understand.

I'm human, a person, a girl, a friend, But the day you forget that and think I'm something else, something I'm not, you hurt me and lose the friend you once had.

I didn't stop loving you. I just stopped showing it, because no matter how hard I tried, you just wouldn't get it.

The thing is, I don't think my husband expected me to be able to talk. I don't blame him for this exactly, since he had known me only as a statue, pure and beautiful and yielding to his art. Naturally, when he wished me to live, that's what he wanted still, only warm so that he might fuck me.

We are sorry, we are sorry. Sorry that you were caught, I said. Sorry that you thought I was weak. But you were wrong.

They never listened. The truth is, men make terrible pigs.

Fame is a form of misunderstanding.

I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.

Is there anything more harsh in this life than to be misjudged, and have one's motives entirely misunderstood?

I have a theory,' she says, looking far ahead, at where salt meets sky, 'that marriages end not because of something you did say but because of something you didn't. All you have to do now is work out what it is.

And she looked up at me and it was as if she was waking from sleep. She stretched. She actually stretched and she said, hello, Kit. And then she must have seen that I was on the verge of tears because her face fell and she said, what is it? And I said, you. You are ruining my chances. And, you know, she said, chances of what? And I realised that if I were to successfully—

We see them oiling their weapons to kill the gryphon they think is hiding in our hen coop. And we cannot help laughing.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.

If you qualify for a reward for the help you've given us, do you want the Lego?' 'The what?' 'The Lego. You know what it is, I take it.' Eleri looked slightly hurt. 'Don't be silly. Of course I do. It's Latin for "I build", isn't it?

No-one understood. No-one. Least of all - me.

Why had I thought of it that way? As a friendship both of us needed? That didn't make any sense at all.

Contrary to what you obviously believe, I don't spend my hours thinking up ways to annoy you,' Troy snaps. 'Actually, I don't think of you at all, so could you miss me with your bullshit, please?

Don't put words in my mouth. I'm sick of people putting words in my mouth.

We call our worst enemies dogs, but they don't deserve it because dogs are the friends of man.

Je ne suis pas sûr que mon collègue ait eu raison de lui faire un bras d'honneur alors que le ferry s'éloignait du quai.

Why aren't you together anymore?" "Because we were never really together to begin with. It's a long story.

How many times in your life have you been told that something is one way, while you're staring at something entirely different? If you're like most people, when you mention that something is amiss, you get slapped down, either verbally, emotionally, or physically, or told that you're nuts or stupid.

who came to greet them in the mistaken belief that they were merchants.