I Wish Someone Understood Me Quotes

#1. Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem. - Author: Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#2. When I was younger, I'd wanted someone to promise me that things would work out and nothing bad would ever happen again. But I understood now that that was a child's wish. No one could promise that. No one. The grown-ups could try, but they couldn't promise, not and mean it. - Author: Laurell K. Hamilton

#3. VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit. - Author: Ambrose Bierce

#4. I understood then why people were so often defeated by this world. Perhaps the web of support that they required just did not come into alignment when it had to. Or perhaps our culture lacked the channels by which to offer this support. - Author: Guy Mankowski

#5. The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period. - Author: George Washington

#6. To be a true poet is to become God.
I tried to explain this to my friends on Heaven's Gate. 'Piss, shit,' I said. 'Asshole motherfucker, goddamn shit goddamn. Cunt. Pee-pee cunt. Goddamn!'
They shook their heads and smiled, and walked away. Great poets are rarely understood in their own day. - Author: Dan Simmons

#7. Seek first to understand, then and only then to be understood. - Author: Unanimous

#8. Something girls never understood about poker night. The real point of the card play was to razz. Razzing calls forth unbridled farm-boy humour, earthy by some standards. The best quip involves belittling someone else's penis, or turning it back on the sayer, or both. - Author: Allan Dare Pearce

#9. His father had a dream: to keep his hands forever clean. Joey wasn't clear whether his father had ever understood that it takes a lot of digging in the dirt to do that. - Author: William H Gass

#10. I believe if people understood each other more, if people took the time and realize it's not 'all about me' and I'm on a big planet with a lot of other people and concerns, maybe we can learn how to get along with each other. - Author: Esai Morales

#11. Sex cannot be contained within a definition of physical pleasure, it cannot be understood as merely itself for it has stood for too long as a profound connection between human beings. - Author: Elizabeth Janeway

#12. Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood. - Author: Burton Richter

#13. A woman can only satisfy and fulfil herself, I understood, when she establishes her own authority, and see beyond equality, realising how terrible and damaging her own power - if unleashed - might be. - Author: Ronald Frame

#14. I understood a powerful fact: formal education gets you a job, but self-education is what makes you rich! The - Author: Jim Rohn

#15. Sigh. These were my people now that I was a writer, people who didn't understand anything. I mean, they understood perfectly the thing I cared most about - books - but basically were moron-level elsewhere. - Author: Claire Dederer

#16. If I explained everything maybe he would understand. I needed to be understood. - Author: Michelle Hodkin

#17. The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this. - Author: Ron Paul

#18. I think it is now widely understood that the so-called "War on Drugs" has largely been a failure. Too many people have developed criminal records for smoking marijuana. Too many people have gone to jail for nonviolent crimes. So I think it's important for us to rethink the war on drugs. - Author: Bernie Sanders

#19. There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness. - Author: Sam Peckinpah

#20. Let the psychotics take over. They alone understood what was happening. - Author: J.G. Ballard

#21. A truth may be useful without being understood, indeed without being believed. - Author: Frank Durham

#22. My focus on silence is to be understood as an intrinsic part of the body's search for meaning amongst the noisy assaults of everyday life ... What quilts have brought to the viewing of art generally is this intervening layer of silence, of collected thought and concerted attention. - Author: Radka Donnell

#23. The Olympic dream was born in 2010 during the qualifications to Vancouver. And when I was watching those Olympics from the sidelines, I felt that I wanted to have my Games. I understood that it wouldn't be easy to make them, especially now that in Russia there are a lot of strong girls. - Author: Adelina Sotnikova

#24. She understood now why pain was the tithe for magic: It was more powerful than joy. Than anything.
Than hope? - Author: Laini Taylor

#25. I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents, and material excess. - Author: Jon Krakauer

#26. I've always understood pornography to be an industry growing ever more granular, appealing to smaller and smaller segments of idiosyncratic perversion. - Author: Drew Nellins Smith

#27. I never understood who all those people are behind the actors! When you see them on the red carpet on TV, you go, 'Why does that person need such a large entourage?' And then you realize that every single person there has a role to play. - Author: Lupita Nyong'o

#28. And it's true. It's so true. All those years of loving Zik because he never asked about Eve ... I never realized, I never understood. It was his job as my best friend not to ask.
But it was my job as his best friend to tell him without being asked. - Author: Barry Lyga

#29. The tribal community lived in the totality of circular time; the farmers of God's universe understood before and after; workers of the clockwork universe lived by the tick; and we creatures of the digital era must relate to the pulse. - Author: Douglas Rushkoff

#30. The source of magic in this world is more mysterious than all the explanations that sorcerers and wizards have given for it, and it is more prevalent than can be understood by those who live according to the constricted form of reason so prevalent in our time. - Author: Dean Koontz

#31. Part of the trouble is that I've never properly understood that some disasters accumulate, that they don't all land like a child out of an apple tree. - Author: Janet Burroway

#32. something glorious a minute later. How could anyone not have an orgasm? While she didn't ask for his cock, her mouth opened as she gulped in air. Perhaps it was when she dropped her head back that he understood she was ever so close, because he shut off the vibrator and pulled it out. - Author: Vella Day