Top 100 Quotes About Misunderstood
#1. More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.
John W. Vessey Jr.
#2. Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.
Oscar Wilde
#3. 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.
Kathryn Lasky
#4. It frequently happens that offenses are committed when the offender is not aware of it. Something he has said or done is misconstrued or misunderstood. The offended one treasures in his heart the offense, adding to it such other things as might give fuel to the fire and justify his conclusions ...
Spencer W. Kimball
#5. She felt lost and misunderstood. She felt like she was drowning. Overwhelmed. Unaccepted. Alone.
Tina J. Richardson
#6. You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality which you misunderstood: but you wereable to destroy only yourself.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#7. Four was difficult and misunderstood, a genius before its time, it belonged to the planet of unexpected disaster.
Janet Fitch
#8. 'Studying the Way' is just a figure of speech, a method of arousing people's interest in the early stages of their development. In fact, the Way is not something which can be studied. Study leads to the retention of concepts, and so the Way is entirely misunderstood
Huangbo Xiyun
#9. Few things are more commonly misunderstood than the nature and meaning of theocracy. It is commonly assumed to be a dictatorial rule by self-appointed men who claim to rule for God. In reality, theocracy in Biblical law is the closest thing to a radical libertarianism that can be had.
R.J. Rushdoony
#10. I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.
Fan Bingbing
#11. The knowledge or information from different source can be misunderstood, unless you experience life, within. All the wisdom and bliss comes from within, and you can have, all the answers of life, when you look inside.
Roshan Sharma
#12. He lived on, miserable and misunderstood, as before, and increasingly lonely. One cannot write those words too often: Maurice's loneliness: it increased.
E. M. Forster
#13. My two little twin brothers have autism, so I grew up around it and misunderstood it for a long time.
Keith Stanfield
#14. We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.
Jude Law
#15. The Falklands held a mirror up to our own islands, and it reflected, in brilliantly sharp focus, all our injured belittlement, our sense of being beleaguered, neglected and misunderstood.
Jonathan Raban
#16. Few developments in campaigning have been as vilified and misunderstood as independent expenditure PACs, or, as they are colloquially known, super PACs.
Bradley A. Smith
#17. Where misunderstanding dwells, misuse will not be far behind. No theory in the history of science has been more misused and abused by cranks and charlatans - and misunderstood by people struggling in good faith with difficult ideas - than quantum mechanics.
Sean Carroll
#18. Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.
Ban Ki-moon
#19. And there you sit, gloating over what you have done, as if you were a martyr or a public benefactor
as complacent and smug and misunderstood as a princess from the moon forced to herd goats!
Hope Mirrlees
#20. Maybe you misunderstood.. A world without Haruka isn't a world worth saving. - Michiru/Sailor Neptune
Naoko Takeuchi
#21. Today, I attended a friend's birthday party dressed as a ninja. I soon discovered that ninjas are very misunderstood.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#22. I realized early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job. Because there are no pay grades and very little structure, people make interesting assumptions about the profession.
Sara Sheridan
#23. I think I've been a bit misunderstood; the first record was more timid than I wanted it to be. I don't like getting pinned down by sex or how I sound like because it's not who I am or what I want to be.
Lykke Li
#24. Often misunderstood, Dionysus is far more than a wine deity. He is the Breaker of Chains, who rescues not only the flesh but the heart and spirit from too much of worldly regulations and duties. He is a god of joy and freedom. Any uncultivated, tangled, and primal woodland is very much his domain.
Tanith Lee
#25. Memory seems as faulty, as misunderstood and misguided, as every other thought or spasm that passes through us.
Amy Bloom
#26. Few words have been misunderstood more than "love," perhaps with the exception of "God
Akemi G
#27. We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't
and those feelings are probably realistic.
Hugh Prather
#28. Nothing can prepare you for living or working with a sociopathic serial bully. It is the most devastating, draining, misunderstood, and ultimately futile experience imaginable.
Tim Field
#29. Ah, there's a director. Astonishing, Spike Lee. A feisty guy, but a guy who's, I think, incredibly misunderstood. I think people review his politics or his color as opposed to his filmmaking sometimes. Because he's a wonderful, wonderful filmmaker and a lover of the art.
Brian Cox
#30. Guys like this Henry always pushed even the most unfunny joke two steps too far . . . then looked wounded and misunderstood when someone yelled at them. And it was always Wassa matter? and it was Can'tcha take a joke? and it was Why don'tcha lighten up a little?
Stephen King
#31. First ladies are doing a lot. But the job remains undefined, frequently misunderstood, and subject to political attacks far nastier in some ways than those any President has ever faced.
Margaret Truman Daniel
#33. If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
Bjarne Stroustrup
#34. My extreme characters are in a state of rebellion or who are being ostracized or being misunderstood, or misfits or trying to fit in and fighting for their rights to love, live, and co-exist. They sort of mirror my own demons.
Xavier Dolan
#35. Few governmental institutions are more misunderstood and feared out of ignorance than the Federal Reserve Board.
David Baldacci
#36. Enthusiats are used to being mocked, maligned and misunderstood. We don't really mind.
Stephen Fry
#38. I am under no illusions. My position, no matter how clearly stated, is likely to be misunderstood.
David Benatar
#39. All men are really most attracted by the beauty of plain speech, and they even write in a florid style in imitation of this. Theyprefer to be misunderstood rather than to come short of its exuberance.
Henry David Thoreau
#40. Because discipline is misunderstood or not as valued as it has been, the United States - and some might argue the world - is experiencing a cultural leadership crisis.
John Manning
#41. I like women who are so real that they become as cowardly as certain men, as heroic as others and as sexual and dominating as men can be. And as you can imagine everything I do is [misunderstood].
Danielle Arbid
#42. To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is misunderstood or that he is different; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good.
Helen Rowland
#43. Believe. The lack of emphasis Plain People place on evangelism is often misunderstood. Setting an example of a holy life, they feel, makes a better witness than mere talk. Rather than proselytize, the Amish provide practical help when natural disasters strike.
Suzanne Woods Fisher
#44. The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably.
William, Saroyan
#46. No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#47. The Booker triumph of Graham Swift's moving, effortlessly profound Last Orders is a vindication of the quiet, much-misunderstood path this fine writer chose to take after the brilliance of Waterland more than ten years ago.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#48. In order not to be misunderstood, I want it perfectly clear that I believe it is incumbent on us to conduct our lives in a way that takes into account all the consequences of our actions, including the consequences to other people, and the consequences to the environment.
Michael Crichton
#49. The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
Jean Cocteau
#50. Being misunderstood - that's the thing that scares me. Because my life is about oversharing.
Tyler Oakley
#51. Every character and person in life needs a voice and every once in a while I get to inhabit the voice of the misunderstood.
David Koechner
#52. What is shame?
The Son of God, while on a rescue mission of love, was
misunderstood
insulted
betrayed
denied
mocked
spit on
cursed
abandoned
stripped
crucified.
Edward T. Welch
#54. And what happens a lot of times when - let's just speak specifically white and black - when white or black people feel misunderstood when it comes to talking about race, they immediately get defensive.
Regina King
#55. Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens.
Alan Cumming
#56. In public relations, you live with the reality that not every disaster can be made to look like a misunderstood triumph.
Christopher Buckley
#57. Turkeys are misunderstood. Once I adopted turkeys, I understood this large bird to be a great companion.
Linda Blair
#58. 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.
Jeff Foster
#59. Dune Messiah is the most misunderstood of Frank Herbert's novels. The reasons for this are as fascinating and complex as the renowned author himself.
Brian Herbert
#60. Commonly, love isn't defined in the sense that it supposed to be. I find it often to be misunderstood. Love is like a principle, flowing out and in like the seasons. It's an attraction not just built by personal attachment, but by one's very presence.
Lionel Suggs
#61. Veterans will eat there too (...). She'll wish to talk with them, but she won't because any interest from her would be sure to be misunderstood. Her body as usual would get in the way of free speech.
Margaret Atwood
#62. Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to permit one to exist and at least to be misunderstood.
Thomas Bernhard
#63. The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.
Baz Luhrmann
#64. There was a lot of negative that was put on rappers for using the word, and I feel like we're just misunderstood. Most of us are; some of us is just plain wack.
Nas
#65. Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#66. I'm a black man in America, so I'm going to be misunderstood.
Tracy Morgan
#67. Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don't get me.
Taylor Swift
#68. Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young; but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton.
Willa Cather
#69. If you're not sure about whether to support Mitt Romney, whether you're liberal, or whether you're very conservative, you ought to be excited, because he's been on your side at one time or another. So I'm not completely misunderstood. I'm not as excited as I am desperate.
Louie Gohmert
#70. With young people, I always say, 'You're not doing anyone any favours by withholding your power.' As women, we do that a lot because we are afraid of being misunderstood or perceived as too strong. But the older I'm getting, the more I realise you have to let that go.
Idina Menzel
#71. I am conscious of the fact that the subject of hell is not a very pleasant one. It is very unpopular, controversial, and misunderstood ... As a minister I must deal with it. I cannot ignore it.
Billy Graham
#72. You know what H.L. Mencken said one time about religious people? He said he'd been greatly misunderstood. He said he didn't hate them. He simply found them comical.
Kurt Vonnegut
#73. I always feel like I've been slightly misunderstood. As a woman, you get judged for appearances or things like that I don't really care about.
Lykke Li
#74. In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood.
Mae West
#75. Love-that which biologists, nervous about being misunderstood call "attachment"-fuels the bond between dog and master or mistress.
John Bradshaw
#76. A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.
Johann Georg Hamann
#77. Misunderstood twins run away from weddings. Malevolent twins shoot the groom.
Courtney M. Privett
#78. Being apart was wrong. Simply lying side by side did more for a relationship than words. A warm bed, a nest of animal intimacy. Words could be misunderstood, whereas loving companionship bred trust.
Michel Faber
#79. I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.
Dusty Springfield
#81. I think I'm pretty misunderstood, because I'm not just about football.
Nick Saban
#82. You could be the Mega Mage of wizards. You could rule Minionfire.
Do you really think so?'
Yeah, but you'd have to make a deal with the wood elves.'
I don't like the wood elves.'
They're okay. They're misunderstood.
Janet Evanovich
#83. When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing.
Criss Jami
#84. Death is the most misunderstood phenomenon. People have thought of death as the end of life. That is the first, basic misunderstanding.
Rajneesh
#85. I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair.
James Patterson
#86. The worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood. It can make people lose their grasp on reality.
Shyza Chaudhry
#87. In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood.
Willem Dafoe
#88. No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.
John Brown Gordon
#89. I just want you as you are. Broken. Misunderstood. Jerk. I want the real version, the dark version, the one who made me the saddest I've ever been in my life, but also the happiest." Now was
L.J. Shen
#90. How little commoners understood, Eshram thought, shaking his head. Most witches were good people, harmless. They only wanted to be one with nature, and were simply misunderstood.
David Bernstein
#91. The Republican Party, in many ways, grew up as a reaction to that [ segregation], and a lot of people have misunderstood that.
Jeff Sessions
#92. I do not want to be misunderstood that you need a dose of persecution in order, really, to have a sense of your identity. Otherwise, you know, there would be no American Jews. Even if you're not strictly, fiercely Orthodox, you commit yourselves to a community of memory.
Simon Schama
#93. I never stopped being attracted to women. Bisexuality is misunderstood; the adage is that you're either straight or gay or lying, but that's not my experience. To call me anything other than bisexual would be inaccurate.
Clive Davis
#94. These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.
Felix Mendelssohn
#95. I think I'm a man that's basically misunderstood.
Corey Dillon
#96. Don't answer every critic. Sometimes, the answers you give may be right but misconceived and misunderstood.
Israelmore Ayivor
#97. Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.
Criss Jami
#98. So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#99. The world seemed quite willing to accept misunderstood artists, misunderstood thieves, and even peasants who dreamed of royalty. But nobody knew what to do with a misunderstood philologist. Other than run him out of town for bringing the dragons down on them.
Brandon Sanderson
#100. But in the meantime, you must be content, I say, to be misunderstood for a while. We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary."
"What is that, grandmother?"
"To understand other people.
George MacDonald
