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Quotes About Misunderstood

Urban Fantasy is the orphan left on the doorstep that no-one knows what to do with.
~ Unknown
As it is I'm a dated novelist, whom hardly anybody reads, or if they do, most of them don't understand what I am on about. Certainly I wish I had never written Voss, which is going to be everybody's albatross.
~ Patrick White
It is said that in difficult times, it is only bodhichitta that heals. When inspiration has become hidden, when we feel ready to give up, this is the time when healing can be found in the tenderness of pain itself. This is the time to touch the genuine heart of bodhichitta. In the midst of loneliness, in the midst of fear, in the middle of feeling misunderstood and rejected is the heartbeat of all things, the genuine heart of sadness.
~ Pema Chodron
Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.
~ Lawrence Durrell
I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
few governmental institutions are more misunderstood and feared out of ignorance than the Federal Reserve Board.
~ David Baldacci
Indeed, growing up he'd always been considered a freak because of the way his mind worked.
~ David Baldacci
I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers...
~ David Foster Wallace
Mieux vaut mourir incompris que passer sa vie à s'expliquer.
~ William Shakespeare
Kerry had "unusual" eyes, and she was "strange," and her mother didn't understand her, either.
~ Unknown
I always thought I'd get farther. I'd like to blame the world for what I've failed to do, but the failure - the failure that sometimes washes over me as anger, makes me so angry I could spit - is all mine, in the end. What made my obstacles insurmountable, what consigned me to mediocrity, is me, just me. I thought for so long, forever, that I was strong enough -- or I misunderstood what strength was.
~ Claire Messud
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
~ Clarence Darrow
La persona della quale parlerò e così sciocca che, a volte, per strada, sorridere gli altri. Nessuno le ricambia il sorriso neppure la vedono.
~ Clarice Lispector
They cheer me because they all understand me, and they cheer you because no-one understands you. —CHARLES CHAPLIN TO ALBERT EINSTEIN AT THE 1931 PREMIERE OF CITY LIGHTS
~ Clive James
Criticism has hurt him for he is not insensitive. He is merely inarticulate.
~ Heywood Broun
Ma chi può lusingarsi di essere compreso? Moriamo tutti incompresi. È il detto delle donne e quello degli scrittori.
~ Honore de Balzac
I'd be at work, where people respected my opinions," said Nick. "And then I'd come home and it was like I was the village idiot. I'd pack the dishwasher the wrong way. I'd pick the wrong clothes for the children. I stopped offering to help. It wasn't worth the criticism.
~ Liane Moriarty
We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy -- at least until we have become as clever as they are.
~ Unknown
Im just a soul whose intentions are good o lord please dont let me be misunderstood.
~ Lil Wayne
Im just a soul whose intentions are good. Oh lord please dont let me be misunderstood
~ Lil Wayne
Thank God kids never mean well
~ Lily Tomlin
the misfits are the gifted.
~ Unknown
Tried to give you warning but everyone ignores me) Told you everything loud and clear But nobody's listening Called to you so clearly but you don't want to hear me Told you everything loud and clear But nobody's listening
~ Unknown
The sight of a sullen teenager is common no matter where you go. Teenagers want things so powerfully and can never seen to get them, and to add insult to injury, people make light of your feelings because you are a teenager. They say time will mend a broken heart and they're often right. But not where my feelings for Hardy were concerned.
~ Lisa Kleypas