Misunderstandings Quotes

“Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, "What else could this mean?”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The Anatomy of Conflict:

If there is no communication then there is no respect. If there is no respect then there is no caring. If there is no caring then there is no understanding. If there is no understanding then there is no compassion. If there is no compassion then there is no empathy. If there is no empathy then there is no forgiveness. If there is no forgiveness then there is no kindness. If there is no kindness then there is no honesty. If there is no honesty then there is no love. If there is no love then God doesn't reside there. If God doesn't reside there then there is no peace. If there is no peace then there is no happiness. If there is no happiness ----then there IS CONFLICT BECAUSE THERE IS NO COMMUNICATION!”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can't you see who I truly am?”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“Let us take the time to explore our inner-selves and get acquainted with our real identity and recognize the quirky corners of our being. Thus, we can view others from another angle and come to see them in a new light that allows us to distinguish past possible misunderstandings.( "Words had disappeared”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“If we don’t cultivate the growing patch of our feelings closely, emotional anarchism can disrupt the mosaic of our thinking pattern, with love becoming a series of misunderstandings. ( "Alpha and Omega")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.”
― Clarence Darrow

“The growth of my love story had been gradual but my success had always existed and both coupled together formed a deadly combination that was detrimental to our love. I wanted people to love me. She wanted them to leave her alone.”
― Faraaz Kazi

“I wanted to wash away our past misgivings in those tears that would run from our eyes and weave a new start by folding her in my arms.
I wanted to, but I did not!”
― Faraaz Kazi

“All the good times evaporated like naphtha, the moment some air of misconceptions touched it.”
― Faraaz Kazi

“Oh! I killed Bunbury this afternoon... I mean poor Bunbury died this afternoon.
What did he die of?
Bunbury? Oh, he was exploded!”
― Oscar Wilde

“When you are angry with a friend, or a friend is angry with you, it's important to remember that there is always hurt underneath anger.”
― Judy Dippel, Friendship Interrupted: Challenges and Practical Solutions - What You Can Do

“   "You know this guy in the office I've told you about?" I said to Eileen one night. "The artist? Dan Rosenthal? I think he's getting into practice for being an old man."
   "Oh? How do you mean?"
   "Well, he's getting so—ah, I can't explain it. I'm not even sure if I've got it right."
   She could seldom explain anything to me about people in her office, either. Our conversations often dissolved into admissions that we weren't even sure if we had it right, and then there would be silence until a quarrel broke out over something else.”
― Richard Yates, The Collected Stories

“Just because it is not what you pictured doesn’t mean it is not what I described.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

“Maybe I've put too much high hopes and expectations on you, or started holding you to an unreachable standard."
"That isn't fair," he says, his own breath coming quicker. He's starting to look less confused and more straight-up angry. Join the club, bud. "I probably should have told you before Geoffrey and Aiden, but I was excited, and you've been ignoring all my attempts to talk since UltiCon. And I really didn't think you would take the news this way. I thought it was a good thing and truthfully? I think you're overreacting."
The little porcupine quills that I imagine live just beneath my skin, primed to shoot up and protect me at a moment's notice, are at the ready now. Except they feel more like Wolverine claws in this case, and Norberto Beneventi's about to feel their wrath.
"Overreacting, huh? Love to hear that. Sorry I'm not over the moon, shooting rainbows out my eyeballs because I'm so delighted for you. Sorry I'm not a selfless little woman whose only goal in life is to see her man shine, that I have real feelings and ambitions for myself."
"Reese, for the love of---" he shouts, throwing his hands up in the air and walking in a tight circle before returning to stand in front of me. He adjusts his cap with a long-suffering sigh. "You know what? I think you've been waiting for this. I think you figured out that there was more to say after our last conversation, and you know this is not that big of a deal, but you've been scared for so long, and angry, and the world's been unfair to you. And I bet whether you realize it or not, you've been waiting for the first excuse to get rid of me for good. You're used to being alone and it's easier than letting another person in, so all you needed was the smallest hint that something may not be perfect and boom---no more Benny. Am I right?"
I scoff, moving to pass him for real this time and not stopping when his hand brushes my shoulder. "You just know me so well, don't you? Please, tell me more about how I'm feeling, why I do the things I do. But you'll have to send it in another message, because I don't have to stay here and listen to it."
I hoist my bag farther onto my shoulder and stomp away from him, my own fury nearly blocking out his parting words.
"Go on, then. Maybe you can move back across the country. See if running from your problems works the second time around.”
― Kaitlyn Hill, Love from Scratch

“And it worries me how misunderstandings exist because people would rather have a hole in their heart than to talk their issues out.”
― Faraaz Kazi

“Nirav pinned Simi to the wall and forced a kiss. She managed to push him away, and shouted, "You are a sex-animal. You are... today and even 'that-day'."

"If I had been one that day, she'd have come out with torn skin and not torn clothes." Nirav shouted in return.”
― Saravana Kumar Murugan, Are You Game? The Internet Sensation Reality Game Show

“We don't always get to decide what others see when they sum us up or reduce us to a caricature of the rich and various selves we think we have fashioned.”
― Robert Boyers, The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies

“Why don’t you turn on the dawnzer?” Ramona asked, proud of her new word.

Beezus looked up from her book. “What are you talking about?” she asked Ramona.

“What’s a dawnzer?”

Ramona was scornful. “Silly. Everybody knows what a dawnzer is.”

“I don’t,” said Mr. Quimby, who had been reading the evening paper. “What is a dawnzer?”

“A lamp,” said Ramona. “It gives a lee light. We sing about it every morning in kindergarten.”

A puzzled silence fell over the room until Beezus suddenly shouted with laughter.

“She-she means—” she gasped, “The Star-Spangled B-banner!” Her laughter dwindled to giggles. “She means the dawn’s early light.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona the Pest

“Jared’s a dick, but he’s my dick—I mean, no, that’s not what I mean, not like that.”
― Val Emmich and Justin Paul, Dear Evan Hansen

“I always got the words pedestrian and Presbyterian confused. I didn't understand why Presbyterians always had the right of way.”
― Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life

“Bringing the feeling of the heart into the words, is the expression, without expression one gains nothing; however, openly, and plainly it may eliminate the misunderstandings and make the ways easy for any decision”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“When it blossoms it is like a team but when it fades away it is worse than an enemy.'
(Misunderstandings in our friendships and relationships)”
― Riya Bisht

“White caps or white horses. Take your pick. They are the same. They are nature's warning before beaches had flags. I had heard my uncle point them out. It sounded fanciful as the drawings beside poems about giants using pillows for clouds. . . . When my uncle said they were there and we wouldn't be going in his boat that day . . . I didn't understand. White horses, I thought, were my uncle's poetry. Better even than calling the swells on waves "white caps." Pilgrims and nurses wore caps. Who wanted to think of them? White horses were another matter. Brothers to unicorns. Galloping. Long haired and free. I ran into the sea.”
― Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

“Not that he truly wished them dead--that wasn't quite it--but more and more often, when the man considered his lifelong friends, his colleagues, even his wife and sons, he felt that their image of him had become so mildewed by habit or complicated by misunderstanding that he took comfort in the idea of their mortality: the thought that soon, very soon, they would die and he would no longer have to be the person they had concluded he was.”
― Kevin Brockmeier, The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories

“If misunderstandings happen between people, it is wiser to talk to each other and explain your real purpose for a stable and stronger relationship than to break it. Prove your good faith.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“And, sometimes...

Silence can be a suffocating blanket, shrouding our relationships in a fog of misunderstandings. Without open communication, we become mere guessers, interpreting silences and sighs as pronouncements of discontent, breeding resentment and mistrust.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“Focus on something specific they said and ask more about it. Read through the other person's texts and pick out words that seem important. Then, ask them to elaborate on that. This will show them you're listening, and it can also help them sort through their complicated feelings.”
― Asa Don Brown

“The deepest ache isn't in solitude, but in being misunderstood in a crowd.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul