Top 1200 Being Misunderstood Quotes & Sayings

Enthusiats are used to being mocked, maligned and misunderstood. We don't really mind.

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.

It's okay to be misunderstood - as long as you're not misunderstood by your consumers.

Being misunderstood is not a bad thing as an actor. I know the truth.

I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.

Scientology is probably one of the most misunderstood things, and it's sad that it's so misunderstood.

Being Christlike guarantees that you'll have the most important friend of all: the Savior. He knows what it's like to be misunderstood, lonely, and rejected.

If you lack the power to demoralize yourself along with the age, to go as low and as far, do not complain of being misunderstood by it.

You cannot explain to someone who comes with no idea of what you are talking about without being misunderstood.

It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.

What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.

I'm not misunderstood. I am brash. I make my living being brash.

I'm a misunderstood genius." "What's misunderstood?" "Nobody thinks I'm a genius.

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.

Saints are people who belong fully to God. They are not afraid of being mocked, misunderstood or marginalized.

If anyone in the E.U. thinks Italy should keep being a landing point and refugee camp, they have misunderstood.

No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it’s worth being a public fool if that’s all you can be in order to communicate yourself.

I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.

Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not difficult to write poems that are misunderstood. A drunk, a three-year-old-they are easily misunderstood. What is difficult is being clear and mysterious at the same time. The dramatic situation needs to be as clear in a poem as it is in a piece of good journalism. The why is part of the mystery, but the who, what, where, and when should all be understood.

I'm a Christian. But Muslims are misunderstood. Intentionally misunderstood. We should all be more like them.

I'm willing to be misunderstood. I've never had a problem being misunderstood by a portion of people on any particular issue if it makes for that much more of a special experience for those who understand.

He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood.

I like being misunderstood.

Computer science is the most misunderstood field there is. You are being paid to solve puzzles. For a person who has practiced meditation in past lives, that is the way your mind works.

I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

I feel like the stillness of Ralph Angel - him being formerly incarcerated, being a Black man, being misunderstood in this world, I felt like that brought him to a place where he thought he had to be an observer - externally and internally.

Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius. Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you? Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius. Corfu? It's just a poor man's Pensacola.

I don't want to be loved. No interest in being loved whatsoever. Actually, I don't mind being misunderstood either.

I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.

Being misunderstood - that's the thing that scares me. Because my life is about oversharing.

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.

Music became less understandable in the wake of the new MTV era. You weren't supposed to be anything other than a pop star, to not go deeper than that. It was really strange. It was suffocating, image-wise. What you could talk about in a song changed; if you were misunderstood, you were really misunderstood - taken literally.

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.

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

Peter (Parker) is not that evolved. Peter wants to tell the world he's a good guy: ' Like me, I'm nice.' He's a 19 year-old kid. He's a kid struggling with being misunderstood. We've all been misunderstood. That's universal too. I like being Peter.

We camouflage our true being before others to protect ourselves against criticism or rejection. This protection comes at a steep price... we are misunderstood. When we are misunderstood, especially by family and friends, we join the 'lonely crowd.' Worse... we tend to lose touch with our real selves.

I don't remember you being this reasonable before, " Lissa said. "It's because everyone has different definitions of 'reasonable. ' Mine's just misunderstood, that's all. " Christian's voice was lofty. "I think you must be misunderstood a lot, " she laughed. His eyes held hers, and the smile on his face transformed into something warmer and softer. "Well, I hope this isn't misunderstood. Otherwise, I might get punched. " Leaning over, he brought his lips to hers. Lissa responded with no hesitation or thought whatsoever, losing herself in the sweetness of the kiss.

I am the most misunderstood and misrepresented of men. Misrepresented because misunderstood.

No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.

Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions. What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being 'found out.' It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

I'm so used to being misunderstood.

To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood.

Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.

The greatest tragedy that can befall a poet is to be praised by being misunderstood.

Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state: The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.

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

Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?

I think I have a deep-seated fear of being misunderstood. Or being misjudged.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

I'm quite comfortable now with being misunderstood. I don't really feel the need either to pander to it or to refute it. Just go on, and do what I've got to do.