Understand Me Quotes

• You know so much about me and yet you don't understand me. To know is not to understand. We could know everything and still not understand anything.

  Antonio Porchia

  You Don't Understand Me, Stills, Knows

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  Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

  Charles Bukowski

  Ordinary World, Soul, Dimensions

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• I thank you for my friends, for those who understand me better than I understand myself. For those who know me at my worst, and still like me. For those who have forgiven me when I had no right to expect to be forgiven. Help me to be as true to my friends as I would wish them to be to me.

  William Barclay

  Friendship, Wish, Helping

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• I have no time for things that have no soul.

  Charles Bukowski

  Ordinary World, Soul

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• But you people do not understand me, and I am afraid you never will.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  People

  Vincent van Gogh (1958). “Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence”

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• I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.

  Sylvia Plath

  Love Life, Little Love, Hard

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.25, Anchor

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• I don't understand you. You don't understand me. What else do we have in common?

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Funny Relationship, Common, You Don't Understand Me

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• If you do not want what I want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong. Or if my beliefs are different from yours, at least pause before you set out to correct them. Or if my emotion seems less or more intense than yours, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel other than I do. Or if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, please let me be. I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up trying to change me into a copy of you.

  David Keirsey

  Giving Up, Design, Trying

  David Keirsey (1998). “Please Understand Me 2”, Prometheus Nemesis Book Company

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• Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive.

  Iggy Pop

  Sensitive, Nobody Understands Me

  "Iggy's Trail of Destruction". Rolling Stone Interview, November 19, 2003.

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• I don't want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me.

  Lil Wayne

  Tired, People, Want

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• I really do wish people could understand me some day.

  Michael Jackson

  People, Wish

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• I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

  Audrey Tautou

  Nobody Understands Me, I Can

  "Audrey Tautou: how the French learned to love the star of Amélie" by Kim Willsher, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2013.

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• I don't know how much of a natural human I am. Y'know, the truth is, I never set out to do that, and I don't think of myself like that. I don't think like that. It's not really about promotion - I don't really understand the idea of promotion, talking to a camera for more money. That's just money. And I like money, don't get me wrong. I don't know. I don't get it. I don't understand it as much as you don't understand me, I think.

  Craig Ferguson

  Thinking, Truth Is, Promotion

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Nobody would know me from my own description of myself; which is why, when called upon (rarely, I grant) to provide an account, I tailor it, I adapt, I try to provide an outline that can, in some way, correlate to the outline that people understand me to have -- that, I suppose, I actually have, at this point. But who I am in my head, very few people really get to see that. Almost none. It's the most precious gift I can give, to bring her out of hiding.

  Claire Messud

  Who I Am, People, Giving

  Claire Messud (2013). “The Woman Upstairs”, p.24, Vintage

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• The whole world may not understand me, but I don’t care.

  Lady Gaga

  Care, May, World

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• Everyone likes me, yet nobody understands me.

  Albert Einstein

  Likes, Nobody Understands Me

  "The culture of Einstein" at MSNBC, March 18, 2005.

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• Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

  Eminem

  Motivational, Careers, People

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• Every man carries his kingdom within, and no one knows what is taking place in another's kingdom. 'No one understands me!' Of course they don't, each one of us is a mystery. There is only One Who understands you, and that is God. Hand yourself over to Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Men, Hands, Kingdoms

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• The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.

  Charlie Chaplin

  People, Audience

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• On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Country, Patriotism, World

  Charlotte Bronte (2014). “The Professor”, p.211, Trajectory Inc

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• People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Inspirational, People, Understanding

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• I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why I started writing. At least on paper I could put down what I thought.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Paper, Felt

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• Even trees understand me! Good heavens, I lie under them, too, don't I? I'm just like a pile of leaves.

  Frank O'Hara

  Lying, Tree, Heaven

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.197, Univ of California Press

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• If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.

  Nellie Melba

  Writing, Heart, Australia

  1925 Melodies and Memories, ch.1.

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• It's not important to me that people understand me.

  Kate Bush

  People, Important

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