Quotes About Misunderstood

I feel terribly misunderstood; I feel terribly misunderstood.

It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way

Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.

I bit my tongue and sat through his detailed and strained explanation. Not for the first time, I realized he considered me slightly slow. My silences he mistook for a lack of wit rather than a lack of any need to speak.

Remember this, my son: our world is one where the impossible occurs every day, and what we often call supernatural is simply the misunderstood.

People understand me so little that they do not even understand when I complain of being misunderstood.

I would rather be a swineherd at Amagerbro and be understood by the swine than be a poet and be misunderstood by people.

And the desire to prevent all misunderstanding about an enterprise one is about to undertake is a thing that could occur only to a youth. There is nothing that so easily gets beyond one's control and so easily becomes misunderstood, as a misunderstanding. Even if one were to undertake nothing more than merely to avoid misunderstanding – then in that case one would presumably become the most thoroughly misunderstood of all men.

a place where people heard what she said but not what she meant. She wanted to be known, but no one knew her.

Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I'm sort of crazy baffoon who can't make up his mind what to do in life

Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.

You are the most brave intrepid person I have ever known, and you have dedicated your life to helping those who are misunderstood and underrepresented.

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

He lived on, miserable and misunderstood, as before, and increasingly lonely. One cannot write those words too often: Maurice's loneliness: it increased.

He felt that the English are a comic institution, and enjoyed being misunderstood by them.

The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.

Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious.

In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.

I, artist in words, dedicate, then, to you, artist whose ideas speak in marble, this well-loved work of my matured manhood. I love it not the less because it has been little understood and superficially judged by the common herd: it was not meant for them. I love it not the more because it has found enthusiastic favorers amongst the Few. My affection for my work is rooted in the solemn and pure delight which it gave me to conceive and to perform.

It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.

She was a mild, inoffensive, well-meaning creature, with a face not unlike that of an amiable horse, and she spent most of her life striving so hard to do the right thing and invariably doing the wrong one.

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.

I believe that people should take pride in what they do, even if it is scorned or misunderstood by the public at large.