Quotes on Being Misunderstood

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

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

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

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

My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreation in the company of others, no intelligent conversation, no exchange of information with peers; only the most pressing needs can make me venture into society. I am obliged to live like an outcast.

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.

I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

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.