Caroline, Princess of Hanover Quotes

There's a lot of days where you feel forgotten.

It is sad when people can't connect, and the sense of desperation that you feel when there is nothing to look forward to.

Of course there are moments for everyone, and certainly for me, where you do feel misunderstood. You feel like you can't really connect. You do feel like you're alone in something.

Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting.

I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.

We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.

I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.

Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.

Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.

I still feel like no one knows who I am. I still feel anonymous.

I've always felt misunderstood. Growing up, it's been my word against the teachers' or my parents' word, and nobody would ever listen to me.

This is the ultimate cruelty, isn't it? That I can talk and talk and to anyone listening, it's only air--too rich a diet to be swallowed by a mundane world.

I don't expect to be understood at all.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.

People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.

I'd been shouting and shouting and no-one wanted to hear me.

People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

I feel terribly misunderstood; I feel terribly misunderstood.

Just having the pain of being alive without anything else, whether it's good or bad. There's a lot of serious songs on the record, you know. That song is just about feeling like a fish out of water, feeling like you don't belong on the planet sometimes.

I grew so depressed from the lack of support that I considered quitting. No one understood me.