Misunderstood Quotes

To be great is to be misunderstood.

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

I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all.

I'm so misunderstood!

The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.

My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.

I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.

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 like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

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.

Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.

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.

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.

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.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music because they've been filtered by people who work for magazines like Rolling Stone.

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

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

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

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.

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.

I like being misunderstood.

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.

Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.