Being misunderstood is a common occurrence in life. People often say things without realizing how they might be interpreted. And, unfortunately, it can lead to hurt feelings and damaged relationships. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this article, we have a collection of some quotes about being misunderstood to help you understand that you’re not alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. \u201cBeing misunderstood by someone is vexation. Being misunderstood by everyone is a tragedy.\u201d Liu Shahe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
2. \u201cThe writer who neglects punctuation, or mis-punctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma.\u201d Edgar Allan Poe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
3. \u201cI have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.\u201d
Clarence Darrow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n3. \u201cI am the most misunderstood and misrepresented of men. misrepresented because misunderstood. ” \u2015 Isaac Parker.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
4. \u201cEvery deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than being misunderstood.\u201d Friedrich Nietzsche.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
5. \u201cMost of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?\u201d \u2015 Howard Stern.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
6. \u201cThe worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.\u201d Jean Cocteau.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
7. \u201cThe fear of being misunderstood is the beginning of mediocrity.\u201d \u2015 Ogwo David Emenike.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
8. \u201cLooking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.\u201d Mokokoma Mokhonoana.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
9. \u201cIt was not death she feared.” It was a misunderstanding.\u201d Zora Neale Hurston.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
10. \u201cShallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.\u201d Martin Luther King Jr.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
11. \u201cDo not write so that you can be understood, write so that you cannot be misunderstood.\u201d William Howard Taft<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
12. \u201cI 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.\u201d Oscar Wilde.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
13. \u201cWe can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.\u201d
\u2014 Immanuel Kant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n14. \u201cPersons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.\u201d John F. Kennedy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
15. \u201cYou can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.\u201d Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
16. \u201cI find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest.” I do not judge the universe. ” Dalai Lama.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
17. \u201cTo be great is to be misunderstood.\u201d Ralph Waldo Emerson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
18. \u201cNever waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.\u201d Dream Hampton.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
19. \u201cIt is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.\u201d Karl Popper.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
20. \u201cWe feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don\u2019t \u2014 and those feelings are probably realistic.\u201d Hugh Prather.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
21. \u201cI have been misunderstood perhaps more than anyone else ever, but it has not affected me, for the simple reason that there is no desire to be understood.\u201d Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
22. \u201cThe fact that I am misunderstood has always given me an added impetus to work on communication skills to bridge the gap.\u201d Yoko Ono.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
23. \u201cHe is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage. ” Oscar Wilde.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
24. \u201cDo not fear being misunderstood and never waste a minute thinking about your enemies.\u201d Elbert Hubbard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
25. \u201cI have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that. ” Fan Bingbing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
26. \u201cI live in terror of not being misunderstood.\u201d Oscar Wilde.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
27. \u201cBeing misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.\u201d Gloria Steinem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
28. \u201cJesus Christ can afford to be misunderstood; we cannot.” Our weakness lies in always wanting to vindicate ourselves.\u201d Oswald Chambers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
29. \u201cIf you judge people, you have no time to love them.\u201d Mother Teresa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
30. \u201cSomewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope.\u201d
\u2014 Shannon L. Alder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n31. \u201cThe more a man judges, the less he loves.\u201d Honore de Balzac.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
32. \u201cLove involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.\u201d Diane Arbus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
33. \u201cLove is a labyrinth of misunderstandings whose way out doesn\u2019t exist.\u201d Jacques-Alain Mille<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
34. \u201cWere it not for some basic misunderstanding, no two people would ever fall in love.\u201d Marty Rubin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
35. \u201cAt the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.\u201d John of the Cross.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
36. \u201cWe\u2019re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.\u201d Rudyard Kipling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
37. \u201cThe single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.\u201d George Bernard Shaw.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
38. \u201cOne age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way.\u201d Ludwig Wittgenstein<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
39. \u201cA false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.\u201d James Thurber.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
40. \u201cWith every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.\u201d G.K. Chesterton.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
41. \u201cConstant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.\u201d Albert Schweitzer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
42. \u201cAs there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.\u201d William James.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
43. \u201cCommunicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama.\u201d Miguel Ruiz.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
44. “I live in terror of not being misunderstood.” ~ Oscar Wilde<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
45. “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.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
46. “Not everybody will get it. People will misinterpret you and what you do. They might even call you names. So get comfortable being misunderstood, disparaged, or ignored — the trick is to be too busy doing your work to care.” ~ Austin Kleon<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
47. \u201cThe proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.\u201d Oscar Wilde.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
48. \u201cBehind every happy couple lies two people who have fought hard to overcome all obstacles and interferences to be that way.” Why? Because it\u2019s what they wanted.\u201d Kim George.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
49. \u201cI know that sounds mean to say, but I don’t mean it.\u201d J.D. Salinger<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Quotes About Being Judged And Misunderstood<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
50. \u201cRather than critique people, try admiring God\u2019s creative handiwork.\u201d Richelle E. Goodrich.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
51. \u201cNot judging people is the fastest way to peace.\u201d \u2015 Jonathan Jackson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
52. \u201cWhen we generalize and judge people quickly without taking ample time, we’ve chosen a shortcut.” It’s superficial of us, and a lack of wisdom.\u201d \u2015 Assegid Habtewold.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
53. \u201cNever judge a book by its cover. At first glance, even Jesus appeared unimpressive. ” Andrena Sawyer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
54. \u201cIn the matters of your mistake, you defend it like a lawyer, in the matters of others’ mistake, you act like a judge.\u201d Amit Kalantri<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
55. \u201cDon’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.\u201d \u2014Robert Louis Stevenson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
56. \u201cWhen you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.\u201d Wayne Dyer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
57. \u201cWe are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.\u201d Erica Jong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
58. \u201cPeople hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.\u201d Albert Camus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
59. \u201cThe degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.\u201d Fyodor Dostoevsky.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
60. \u201cJudge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.\u201d \u2014Voltaire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
61. \u201cThe older I get, the more I would rather sit alone, in silence, than with people who judge the way I live.\u201d Kristen Butler.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
62. \u201cWe are all different. Don\u2019t judge, understand instead.\u201d
\u2014 Roy T. Bennett<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n63. \u201cWhen good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them. ” Criss Jami, \u2018Killosophy\u2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
64. \u201cPeople understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.\u201d \u2014 S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
65. \u201cNowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.\u201d Oscar Wilde.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
66. \u201cI think I get misinterpreted and misunderstood a lot.\u201d
\u2015 Macy Gray.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n67. \u201cYou have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.\u201d Edie Sedgwick.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Quotes About Misunderstandings<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
68. \u201cIf a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.\u201d \u2014 Criss Jami, \u2018Killosophy\u2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
69. \u201cUnderstanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding.\u201d \u2014 Elias Canetti.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
70. \u201cNothing hurts a good soul and the kind heart more than to live amongst people who can’t understand it.\u201d \u2014 Ali lbn Abi Talib.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
71. \u201cClear up any misunderstanding before it gets to that point.\u201d<\/p>
\u2014 Joel Miller.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
72. \u201cI have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.\u201d \u2014 Clarence Darrow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
73. \u201cAn order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.\u201d \u2014 Napoleon Bonaparte.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
74. \u201cNo one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.\u201d \u2014Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
75. \u201cStudy leads to the retention of concepts, and so the Way is entirely misunderstood.\u201d \u2014 Huangbo Xiyun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
76. \u201cI shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.\u201d\u2014 Antoine de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
77. \u201cThe world only goes round by misunderstanding.\u201d \u2014 Charles Baudelaire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
78. \u201cWe are infected by own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.\u201d \u2014 Kevin Kelly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
79. \u201cUnderstanding is but the sum of misunderstandings.\u201d \u2014 Haruki Murakami, \u2018Sputnik Sweetheart\u2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
80. \u201cMisunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish.\u201d \u2014 Philip Yancey.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
81. \u201cThe same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.\u201d\u2014 Friedrich Nietzsche.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
82. \u201cMisunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.\u201d \u2014 Stephen Jay Gould.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
83. \u201cIt\u2019s dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.\u201d \u2014 L. M. Montgomery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
84. \u201cMuch of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.\u201d \u2014Nassim Nicholas Taleb.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
85. \u201cMisunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.\u201d \u2014Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
86. \u201cChange comes with both fear and some pain. Those two ingredients create mistrust, misunderstanding, and misinformation. ” \u2014 David Mixner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
87. \u201cMisunderstanding leads to more misunderstanding, as success leads to more success.\u201d \u2015 Girdhar Joshi<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
88. \u201cLet us not harm ourselves just because you don\u2019t understand me and I don\u2019t understand you!” Let us miss misunderstanding, and we shall surely see that understanding!\u201d \u2015 Ernest Agyemang Yeboah.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Best Misunderstood Quotes When No One Understands<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
89. \u201cNo adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.\u201d Stephen Fry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
90. \u201cI guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I said.\u201d Alan Greenspan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
91. \u201cA writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.\u201d Johann Georg Hamann.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
92. \u201cWe have misunderstood our confusion when we think there is an answer to it. The confusion is not a result of questions that are too hard, but rather a questioner who is disintegrating. ” Steven Harrison.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
93. \u201cFear is a friend who’s misunderstood But I know the heart of life is good.\u201d
\u2014 John Mayer, ‘The Heart Of Life’.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n94. \u201cThe greatest tragedy that can befall a poet is to be praised by being misunderstood.\u201d Pattiann Rogers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
95. \u201cPeople will misinterpret you and what you do. They might even call you names. So get comfortable with being misunderstood, disparaged, or ignored – the trick is to be too busy doing your work to care.\u201d Austin Kleon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
96. \u201cI believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.\u201d Jeff Bezos.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
97. \u201cWhat if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?\u201d S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
98. \u201cWords are the source of misunderstandings.\u201d Antoine de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry, \u2018The Little Prince\u2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
99. \u201cTo pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.\u201d Aiden Wilson Tozer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
100. \u201cMercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.\u201d Jack London, \u2018The Call Of The Wild\u2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Conclusion<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
In conclusion, being misunderstood is a common occurrence that can be frustrating and demoralizing. However, it is important to remember that it is usually not intentional and that most people are actually trying to be helpful. If you are misunderstood, try not to take it personally and instead focus on the positive aspects of the situation. With time and patience, the misunderstanding will likely clear up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n