“I’ve always known that there’s more going on inside me than finds its way into the world, but this is probably true of everyone. Who doesn’t regret that he isn’t more fully understood?”— Richard Russo, amazon.com
“People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”— Søren Kierkegaard, amazon.com
“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates…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, amazon.com
“Old souls are the sun. They’re the spark. They’re all the colors of a rainbow, and the depths of the earth. They may be misunderstood, but they’re love is real, their hearts pure.”— Lori De La Cruz, lifehack.org
“Old souls are often born into families who don’t understand them. This, of course, is a tremendous growing tool (and really, only fellow old souls will ever ‘get’ each other fully) but it makes for a tumultuous upbringing. Those formative years then end up impacting their adult relationships a lot m…”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com
“Sensitive people are the most genuine and honest people you will ever meet. There is nothing they won’t tell you about themselves if they trust your kindness. However, the moment you betray them, reject them or devalue them, they become the worse type of person. Unfortunately, they end up hurting th…”— Shannon Alder, facebook.com
“No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.”— Stephen Fry, books.google.com
“I am tired of being taken for granted. If only I could get back a fraction of what I give. But my efforts go unrecognized, and my soul keeps wishing to be noticed, to be valued; to be understood.”— Lang Leav, facebook.com