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Quotes About Misunderstood

Being misunderstood by the people you care most about...
~ Unknown
So many people think I'm mean, I hate being misunderstood man...its not cool.
~ Unknown
Me being misunderstood is common, a little too common but it is what it is.
~ Unknown
Being misunderstood! It's like no matter how you may express what you're feeling, Poeple still won't understand!
~ Unknown
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I didn't feel that I had any good qualities. Or rather, none were good enough. Nothing I did or said was good enough, but I couldn't make anyone understand the way I felt.
~ Unknown
I cannot be the only one who believes that if others just saw who I really was, then I would be understood and, perhaps, loved.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
God save us from people who mean well.
~ Vikram Seth
There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
I thought I would be understood without words
~ Vincent Van Gogh
What am I in the eyes of most people? A good-for-nothing, an eccentric and disagreeable man, somebody who has no position in society and never will have. Very well, even if that were true, I should want to show by my work what there is in the heart of such an eccentric man, of such a nobody.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
What I am in the eyes of most people — a nonetity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position in society and never will have, in short, the lowest of the low.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
What am I in the eyes of most people?--a nobody, or an eccentric and disagreeable man--somebody who has no position in society and never will have, in short, the lowest of the low. Very well, even if that were true, then I should want to show by my work what there is in the heart of such an eccentric man, of such a nobody.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
So I think there must be more animation, and we must throw all doubts overboard, and also a certain lack of confidence. Do you want a motive for keeping one's serenity even when one is isolated and misunderstood, and has lost all chance for material happiness? This one thing remains - faith; one feels instinctively that an enormous number of things are changing and that everything will change. We are living in the last quarter of a century that will end again in a tremendous revolution.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke
~ Vincent Van Gogh
There was something wrong with this man. He didn't call me Toby. He didn't even talk to us. I thought of my first mother, the very last time I saw her, escaping the Yard because she couldn't live with humans, not even with someone as loving as Senora. But the man didn't love us at all.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
I'm not the one with the problem its the world who seems to have a problem with me
~ Unknown
Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.
~ Jerry Saltz
Evil does not relent; it must be defeated. And even when defeated, uprooted, and purified by fire, evil leaves behind a seed that will one day germinate and, in blooming, again be misunderstood. I
~ Dean Koontz
Cornell knew that most people thought he was strange, even creepy. He'd been diagnosed with Asperger's disorder and various forms of autism. Maybe all those diagnoses were correct or maybe none were. His IQ was very high, and he'd made a lot of money while sitting alone in a room, developing apps that had proved enormously popular. When he was rich, no less than when he'd been poor, people thought he was strange, even creepy.
~ Dean Koontz
I've built something valuable here. But valuable things also have a way of being misunderstood in their own time. Everyone wants a quick fix. We're tired of being afraid, tired of being sad, tired of feeling overwhelmed, tired of feeling tired. We want the old day back, and we don't even remember them, and we want to push into the future, paradoxically, at top speed. Patience and forbearance become the first casualties of progress.
~ Dennis Lehane
Generally, I feel I'm cast aside because of the kind of movies that I make.
~ Gautham Menon
I'm an athlete who took the sport to another level. I don't get or ever got the respect from people.
~ Anderson Silva
People still think I'm a bit of a buffoon - not really an athlete.
~ Eddie the Eagle