Top 528 Misunderstood Quotes & Sayings

Fear is a friend who's misunderstood

I'm a misunderstood genius.

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 like being misunderstood.

To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand; it is the cruelest trial reserved for self-devotion; it is what must have oftenest wrung the heart of the Son of man; and if God could suffer, it would be the wound we should be forever inflicting upon Him. He also - He above all - is the great misunderstood, the least comprehended.

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

My quenelle was very misunderstood.

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

I do like how the music can be misunderstood.

I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

I feel terribly misunderstood; I feel terribly misunderstood.

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.

Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.

If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.

A lot of NFL guys are misunderstood.

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.

I think I'm a man that's basically misunderstood.

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.

I'm a black man in America, so I'm going to be misunderstood.

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 have always been misunderstood.

Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.

An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood.

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

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.

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

Alcohol is a misunderstood vitamin.

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

I think I get misinterpreted and misunderstood a lot.

Failure's relative. I've always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something's not right about that. It's how you treat failure, too. There's something to learn from it. I've had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures: What kind of failure was it? A failure because it's misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?

I know what it is to be misunderstood.

I haven't forgotten what it was like to be a kid; especially a misunderstood one

My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood.

If you can't detect the sarcasm you've misunderstood.

Miracle is a misunderstood reality.

I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.

Religon is misunderstood mythology

I think I'm a director that is very easily misunderstood.

we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

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

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

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

To be great, you must be misunderstood

I'm probably one of the most misunderstood people in the league.

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

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 believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.

I'm so used to being misunderstood.

To be gret is to be misunderstood.

I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

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.

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.

Sometimes I feel like I represent for the misunderstood.

I'm so misunderstood!

Transgender people really are misunderstood.