Misunderstood Quotes
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
Antonin Artaud
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
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
Audre Lorde
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
Frank Lloyd Wright
I don't look at her like she's a bad girl. She just misunderstood sometime, she's a little troubled, she's a little dysfunctional. She's a survivor.
Aida Turturro
I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.
Alan Greenspan
I had older brothers and sisters who were high achievers, and I felt different, misunderstood by my family. That's not my family's fault; it was my perception.
Willie Aames
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
Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.
Jennifer O'Neill
Brussels sprouts are misunderstood - probably because most people don't know how to cook them properly.
Todd English
It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.
Bill Forsyth
No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.
John Brown Gordon
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.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.
Tony Blair
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
I think that Scottish people, like Canadians, are often misunderstood and what I like about my Scottish friends and relatives is how quickly it can go from love to anger. It's a great dynamic.
Mike Myers
Scientology is probably one of the most misunderstood things, and it's sad that it's so misunderstood.
Stanley Clarke
No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
Clarence Darrow
Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
William Howard Taft
My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they're misunderstood. I don't think people realize how kind New York people are.
Bill Murray