Adults Quote by Adam Phillips

We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way…

— Adam Phillips

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

— John Baldessari

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.

— Simone Weil

People don't want to be understood - I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left. They don't want complete sympathy…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“We achieve some measure of adulthood when we recognize our parents as they really were, without sentimentalizing or mythologizing, but also without blaming them…

— Carl Sagan Ann Druyan

Inside the heart of each and every one of us there is a longing to be understood by someone who really cares. When a…

— Rev Ed Hird

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted…

— Carol Burnett

'It's much better to understand than to be understood,' from my mom.

— Cara Santana

Sometimes there aren't words for how you feel you wish if someone just Understand you

— Ritu Ghatourey

We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.'…

— George MacDonald

Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative,…

— Anton Chekhov