Quotes About Misunderstood

Only last week, the Bureau announced that one of those fugitive girls might be "feigning pregnancy." It struck me as a strange idea of what constitutes disguise. Whiskers, I would have thought, yes. Sunglasses even, a wig; but pregnancy, no. Jim says I misunderstood what the Bureau meant. The "feigned pregnancy" was considered, not as a disguise, but as a means of getting people not to shoot. I don't know.

Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.

I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights.

We'd gotten him wrong. He wasn't a dunce. He was an artist. According to these pages, he'd seen us all a good deal clearer than we'd ever seen him.

It isn't easy being a brilliant inventor, always alone. Always misunderstood. Easy to turn bitter, make horrible mistakes. People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed. -Hephaestus

Am I a troubled kid? Yeah, you could say that.

I, of course, am considered mad, bad and dangerous to know.

Did Soren agree to be part of a system to protect Skench and Spoorn and the others? Barren, the other Snowy monarch, asked in her soft voice. He did indeed, madam, Ezylryb replied. Soren is a much-misunderstood owl these days. Believe me, Soren will do whatever is required in this invasion.

Did he judge on appearance alone? would he judge me? Goth doesn't cut it when it comes to a word that describes me. I'm complex. Complicated. No one gets me, and I like it that way.

Many of the men in authority in the Soviet Union were careless, lazy, drunk, and just plain stupid. They misunderstood their instructions, they forgot, they approached challenging tasks halfheartedly and then gave up, and sometimes they just decided they knew better. Reasoning with them was useless; charm was worse. Being nice to them made them think you were a fool who could be ignored.

Now they tell me a psychopath's a guy fights too much and fucks too much, but they ain't wholly right, do you think?

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

New Jersey is one of the best kept secrets in the United States. So, I say let the uninformed keep mocking it, those of us in the know are laughing right back at the ones making fun of it!

Rats are the most unloved living things on the planet.

A lost person or article is still what it is, still valuable in itself, but in the wrong place, disconnected from its purpose and unable to be or do whatever it is intended to be or do.

He knew how much pride his people took him being forever misunderstood.

I got a good heart but my attitude gat people thinking I'm evil

Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.

The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.

She misunderstood my method, in my opinion, not realizing that my approach, rather obscure to those unfamiliar, was based on the idea that in my struggle with reality, I could exhaust any opponent with whom I was grappling, like one can wear out an olive, for example, before successfully stabbing it with a fork, and that my propensity not to hasten matters, far from having a negative effect, in fact prepared for me a fertile ground where, when things seemed ripe, I could make my move with ease.

The word "depressed" is spoken phonetically as "deep rest". We can view depression not as a mental illness, but on a deeper level, as a profound, and very misunderstood, state of deep rest, entered into when we are completely exhausted by the weight of our own identity.

Tesla understood the universe, he just didn't understand the world.

You wouldn't understand me even if I made sense.

We are a package deal, however. Our trait of sensitivity means we will also be cautious, inward, needing extra time alone. Because people without the trait (the majority) do not understand that, they see us as timid, shy, weak, or that greatest sin of all, unsociable. Fearing these labels, we try to be like others. But that leads to our becoming overaroused and distressed. Then that gets us labeled neurotic or crazy, first by others and then by ourselves.