“Being misunderstood by someone is vexation. Being misunderstood by everyone is tragedy.”

“I am only responsible for what I say, not for what you understand.”

“The greatest distance between two people is a misunderstanding.”

“People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”

“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”

“It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.”

“It wasn’t only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy — it was confusion and misunderstanding.”

“Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.”

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

“The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood.”

“Most of the things I do are misunderstood — and that is the fate of all true originals.”

“Being misunderstood doesn’t mean you’re the issue. Sometimes it’s the people who misunderstand you that have all the issues.”

“I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered far more if I had been understood.”

“How the myth wipes out the fact.”

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”

“Despite how understanding you attempt to be, people can only understand you as much as they’ve understood themselves.”

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

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

“I don’t mind being hated, but I hate being misunderstood.”

“We are all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.”

“The point was to learn what we feared more — being misunderstood or being betrayed.”

“Understanding is deeper than knowledge. Many people know you, but very few truly understand you.”

“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words either.”

“I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.”

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

“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.”

“Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so.”

“When no one understands, that’s usually a sign you need to look inward first.”

“It breaks my heart how well the misunderstood understands others.”

“Buried emotions are caged nighthawks that have fallen in love with the moon.”

“The more you overthink, the less you will understand.”

“Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait. Be still and allow the mud to settle.”

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood?”

“I think I get misinterpreted and misunderstood a lot.”

“Don’t try to explain yourself to people. If they don’t get you, they don’t get you.”

“To understand and be understood is to be at peace.”

“I usually know exactly how I feel. I just can’t tell anyone.”

“Just because I can’t explain the feelings causing my anxiety doesn’t make them less valid.”

“In the end, there doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you — there just has to be someone who wants to.”

“I’d rather be loud and misunderstood than quiet and bored.”

“Never apologize for showing your feelings. When you do, you are apologizing for the truth.”

“The desire to be better understood has been extinguished from my heart.”

“Tell someone not to be emotional and you’ve told them to be dead.”

“I am not loved at all. And yet I do nothing but good.”

“Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.”

“Words are the source of misunderstandings.”

“Nothing hurts a good soul more than to live among people who cannot understand it.”

“Communication feels like it should be the simplest thing, but it’s not. Sometimes you don’t even know how you feel, let alone how to explain it to someone else.”

“It’s dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.”

“She kept giving him signals and at last when he understood them, she had more important things to do.”

“I’m afraid you’ll never fully understand me, and sometimes because of that, you’ll be frightened, annoyed, or pleased without knowing why.”

“Some people use their own hurt as an excuse for hurting others.”

“Sometimes we have to hide our feelings because the people we have them for may never understand how much we care.”

“Don’t cheat. If the feelings aren’t there then you shouldn’t be either.”

“When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.”

“Real love means withholding the truth when you’re offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone’s feelings.”

“Missing someone shows you exactly how much that person means to you.”

“You can’t share an emotional experience you don’t understand yourself.”

“The pain of being alone is completely out of this world. I understand your feelings so much it actually hurts.”

“I wanted to punch him and understand him at the same time.”

“We feel understood by people who like us. Misunderstood by people who don’t. And both feelings are probably realistic.”

“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?”

“The most painful misunderstandings are the ones that come from the people who raised you.”

“I thought that if he was my own father, he ought to love me. I was a little girl then and didn’t know any better.”

“Being misunderstood by your own family is a silence that follows you everywhere.”

“How hard it is to inherit someone else’s dreams and call them your own.”

“It would have been more beautiful if there had been no separation or misunderstanding — if they had walked hand in hand through life from the very beginning.”

“When the people who made you cannot understand you, you begin to wonder who you really are.”

“Some families speak in words. Others speak in silence. And sometimes neither one understands the other.”

“I honor those who raised me. But I will not shrink myself to make them comfortable with who I’ve become.”

“Always be considerate of others’ feelings. Before you judge, try to understand what they might be going through.”

“No amount of support or generosity justifies someone treating you badly. This includes parents.”

“When good people consider you the bad one, you develop a heart for the ones the world has given up on.”

“The rift that forms from being misunderstood by family is one that takes the longest to heal.”

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

“Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.”

“Friends ask you questions. Enemies question you.”

“When you’re the only sane person in the room, you look like the only insane one.”

“In order to share your true brilliance, you first have to risk looking like a fool.”

“Oftentimes in reality, the genius sits in the position of the antihero — trusted by neither side.”

“When most of the greatest people in history were misunderstood, being misunderstood starts to feel like good company.”

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”

“It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.”

“People usually gossip about the people they don’t quite understand, are jealous of, or have unresolved feelings about.”

“It takes only three seconds to judge a person — and sometimes a lifetime to correct that judgment.”

“Your defect is a propensity to hate everybody. And yours is a willingness to misunderstand them.”

“After all, there was something rather pleasant in knowing you were misunderstood. It made you feel different from everyone else.”

“Education is an admirable thing, but nothing worth knowing can be taught in a single glance.”

“I’m quite comfortable now with being misunderstood. I don’t feel the need to refute it or pander to it.”

“I write these things so some feel understood, less alone, and less afraid.”

“The loneliness of being misunderstood is not the absence of people — it’s the absence of being truly seen.”

“Feelings of isolation and misunderstanding follow you like a shadow you can’t outrun.”

“I too am untranslatable. I too am not a bit tamed.”

“No one knows how another person feels in private.”

“She experienced related feelings of isolation and misunderstanding, living on the far edges of a world that never quite saw her.”

“When you refuse to embrace your negative emotions, you refuse to heal the part of you that was triggered.”

“Emotional pain cannot kill you. But running from it can.”

“People forget that I’m a human being. We feel the same things people on the outside feel. I don’t think they really understand that.”

“You killed someone you were supposed to love. And I did too. And somehow we both understand feelings that don’t even have a name in the English language.”

“I have always felt that books help me feel less alone in the world — they help me feel feelings I wouldn’t otherwise feel.”

“Setting emotional boundaries prevents people from manipulating you, using you, and playing with your feelings.”

“To feel valued — to know even once in a while that you can do something well — is an absolutely marvelous feeling.”

“The more you hide your feelings, the more they show. The more you deny them, the more they grow.”

“I think I is barking up the wrong dog.”

“I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”

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

“I’m not a criminal. I’m a bear.”

“You don’t understand me. Who can understand you, I wonder?”

“Mrs. Rogers learned to say undust the furniture, unlight the lights, and close the drapes. And things like that.”

“Before I die, I want to change my name to ‘Here,’ so my tombstone reads ‘Here lies.’ And people who knew me could walk by and say, ‘Ain’t that the truth.’”

“I am having Monday feelings towards Tuesday.”

“Terrific? Don’t bring language like that in here.”

“Sometimes it’s okay to eat your feelings.”

“Hallo, Pooh. Thank you for asking. I thought you were saying how sorry you were about my tail. ‘No,’ said Pooh. ‘That wasn’t me.’ ‘Perhaps it was somebody else.’ ‘Well, thank him for me when you see him.’”

“The fact that I am misunderstood has always given me an added drive to work on communication — to bridge the gap.”

“I have been misunderstood perhaps more than anyone else, but it has not affected me. There is simply no desire to be understood.”

“I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood — I have grown accustomed to that.”

“Most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood. You are in good company.”

“Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding heart and looks for the best in people.”

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

“The best thing you could do is master the chaos in you. You are not thrown into the fire — you are the fire.”

“Learn to know yourself — to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings.”

“Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.”

“Emotional pain cannot kill you but running from it can. Allow it. Embrace it. Let yourself feel. Let yourself heal.”

“I write so some feel understood, less alone, less afraid.”

“Good health! Carry the crown of your head high, drink in sunshine, greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp.”

“One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.”

“A belief is a thought, fueled by a feeling, that you think over and over until it becomes a habit.”

“I’m only responsible for what I say, not for what you understand.”

“The only right path for you is the one that stems deeply from the core of your true self.”

“We like what we like, we want what we want, and nobody needs to give us permission to feel that way.”

“You don’t have to explain yourself to people committed to misunderstanding you. Walk on.”

“Don’t be ashamed to weep. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”

“I’m proud of myself because I understand others’ feelings even when no one understands mine.”

“Give respect to others’ thoughts and cherish their feelings — when you do this regularly, you’ll step into the magnificent world of wisdom and understanding.”

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”

“Nothing endures but personal qualities.”

“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. I too am untranslatable.”

“Whatever you do, you should do it with feeling.”

“When you’re misunderstood, remember — the sun doesn’t apologize for shining just because some people prefer the dark.”

“Being true to yourself in a world that keeps misreading you — that is the quiet, unsung kind of bravery.”