Quotes About Introversion

I am a private person. I don't need a lot of company. And I find it really, really difficult to talk about myself.

I have, like, three or four friends and am a very private person.

I know I'm an oddball given that today 90 per cent of all human beings are extremely social, and I, for one, am a part of a profession which is not perceived to be for introverts, but I enjoy my personal space.

I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know.

I remember being chronically shy. I came out of my shell a bit when I went to university, but I'm still fairly shy in company.

I don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face.

As a kid, I was really shy. Technically I am still, but when I'm performing I want everybody to listen.

I don't like telephones: I don't like when they ring. Just because it rings, you have to pick it up. I don't even like opening mail; I'm weird.

I don't have many friends in the television industry, as I am an introvert who likes her own set of friends. I also don't plan for the future and believe in living for the moment.

For three years Albert would stay huddled in his den during the day and see almost no one, content to be alone with his books. From time to time, unshaved and sloppily dressed, he would appear in the street to take a meal or perform some errand. Then it was back to his room for more study.

on being somewhat antisocial- "You have less people at your funeral but you get more reading time.

The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him.

Society is no comfort, to one not sociable.

I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.

If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.

In real life I'm very low-key. A wallflower. One of the reasons I went into comedy and acting was that I was sick of being shy.

There have been people in my life who have told me I have to put myself out there more. But it's so hard for me to do that.

Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.

In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them

I said nothing. I'm good at saying nothing. I don't like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to.

She'd got so used to not wanting to go out and be sociable that saying no had become her natural default setting. The moment anyone invited her anywhere, her brain began scrambling for plausible excuses as to why she couldn't make it.

His name was Mr. O. H. Lee and sometimes she said hello and he said nothing.

Good morning," I said awkwardly. Being shipwrecked doesn't make shyness any easier.

Unsociable even at home and unable to meet the eyes of strangers when she ventured out, Emily made her awkward way across days and years whose bareness appalls her biographers.