Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand; it is the cruelest trial reserved for self-devotion; it is what must have oftenest wrung the heart of the Son of man; and if God could suffer, it would be the wound we should be forever inflicting upon Him. He also - He above all - is the great misunderstood, the least comprehended.

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

Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive.

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

All the suffering that humanity ever knew can be traced to the one fact that no man in the history of the Galaxy ... could really understand one another. Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed.

She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all.

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.

The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you.

Fans say I have a lot of sorrow in my eyes. It's true.

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.

Everyone at some point in their lives feels excluded and misunderstood.

Mr. Brad Delp. J'ai une ame solitaire. I am a lonely soul.

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

I'm so used to being misunderstood.

Christmas makes everything twice as sad.

I was a very sad little girl.

If a documentary crew were to follow me around, they'd probably think they were making a film about the saddest person in the world.

A lot of my songs are about loneliness and losing relationships. Even the ones that are happy, there's a lonely undertone to them.

If you are misunderstood, I want you to know that I feel the same way.

Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.

He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.

The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.

All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.