Quotes About Misunderstood

I knew I wouldn't get an invitation. I would be lucky to get an invitation to my own funeral, with my reputation.

I'm one of those people who never knows what to say, so I say nothing. Then people think I am a snob. Or if I do say something, half the time I blurt out the wrong thing and embarrass myself.

Per loro sono una bambola cresciuta troppo.

Scientology is probably one of the most misunderstood things, and it's sad that it's so misunderstood.

To my deep mortification my father once said to me, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family."

To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family.

Me? I'm the king of the twentieth century. I'm the bogeyman. The villain...The black sheep of the family.

My heart didn't break into a thousand pieces after he left. Instead, I realized all the things he didn't do. He didn't want to hear my stories. He didn't ask me questions. He didn't smile when I was talking to him. He didn't hug me out of the blue to make me feel good. His hugs were always a preamble to something else and after he was gone, I wondered if he ever knew me at all.

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.

There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.

Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.

I felt like the kid in the backseat who can't hear what the adults are talking about, it made me feel a little but invisible.

Three things no one has ever said about me: You make it look so easy. You are very mysterious. You need to take yourself more seriously.

Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.

Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.

You know what pit bulls are capable of, right? But they're also capable of being the most wonderful, sweet pets in the world, depending on how you raise them. That's all our children.

He's just "me, me, by myself, all alone". A lone wolf! But you can see he's no hunter, that he's a stranger to the forest. Wolves don't hunt alone! Never! A lone wolf, ha, what twaddle, foolish townie nonsense. But he doesn't understand that!

I don't want to be loved. No interest in being loved whatsoever. Actually, I don't mind being misunderstood either.

Romance tends to be the whipping boy of genre fiction.

Nobody cares for the product I, and a host of other horror directors, make.