Nobody Understands Me Quotes

• Everyone likes me, yet nobody understands me.

  Albert Einstein

  Likes, Understand Me

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

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have never been able to understand why it is that just because I am unintelligible nobody understands me.

  Milton Mayer

  Able, Understand Me

  4 Copy quote

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

  Audrey Tautou

  Understand Me, I Can

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

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive.

  Iggy Pop

  Sensitive, Understand Me

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

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I seemed to have spent the whole time either reading, which I loved, or laughing, which I love, or fooling about, which I loved. There was the usual teenage angst: "Nobody understands me" and "I'm the only genius in the world" and all that stuff. But that didn't get very deep.

  Philip Pullman

  Teenage, Reading, Laughing

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• ... the twin concepts of nihilism and the antihero have had it. What began with The Wild One and James "nobody understands me" Dean, ran with increasing vehement negativism up through the Stones and Velvets and Iggy ... [I]t may be time, in spite of all indications to the contrary from the exterior society, to begin thinking in terms of heroes again, of love instead of hate, of energy instead of violence, of strength instead of cruelty, of action instead of reaction.

  Lester Bangs

  Hate, Hero, Thinking

  14 Copy quote