“But they were fated to misunderstand each other.”
Source: Captain Blood
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Rafael Sabatini19
Italian writer 1875–1950Related quotes
Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet
<p>C'est par le malentendu universel que tout le monde s'accorde.</p><p>Car si, par malheur, on se comprenait, on ne pourrait jamais s'accorder.</p>
Journaux intimes (1864–1867; published 1887), Mon cœur mis à nu (1864)
“We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.”
Rudyard Kipling book The Light That Failed
Source: The Light That Failed
“Their fate will be in each other's hands as they decide whether to share or to shaft.”
Robert Kilroy-Silk (1942) British politician
Shafted, 2001
Frequently shown as a running joke on Have I Got News For You
“One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 98e
“What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?”
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
“We were each other's rock. But did it make us each other's destiny?”
Rachel Hawthorne (1950) American author
Source: Full Moon