Quotes About Introversion

Quiet is might. Solitude is strength. Introversion is power.

She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse.

But Sally didn't have the heart to fight back. She wore dark clothes and tried not to be noticed. She pretended she wasn't smart and never raised her hand in class. She disguised her own nature so well that after a while she grew uncertain of her own abilities.

It's easy to keep to yourself if you hang back and always sit in the last row and slip around corners as if you were a ghost.

He could not make conversations with strangers, and yet conversations with strangers were perhaps the first thing required of him in his new life.

I was less a social butterfly than a social death's-head moth.

I want to resume the life of a shy person.

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days. I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school.

I don't mind being the center of attention as a character but in real life it's not for me.

He is the sort who are all right so long as they keep to things—books, pictures—but kill when they come to people.

And you've never met me, so don't bother me with your condolences. I've got no use for them.

I don't have a manager or a publicist and am hardly seen at film parties. I am not ambitious.

I am not into publicity. I'm not good at it. I get anxiety about it.

In other countries, congenital introverts simply remain introverts all their lives, neither advancing nor retreating, but America's commitment to extroversion as a national art form can abrade some naturally aloof personalities until they flower into deadly nightshade.

She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.

People never like me and I never like people

People never like me and I never like people, she thought. And I never can talk as the Crawford children could. They were always talking and laughing and making noises.

People never like me and I never like people,' she thought. 'And I never can talk as the other children could. They were always talking and laughing and making noises.

Conversations bore me, to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives bore me to my soul.

I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person.

I like to be home on a Friday night. I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV.

Many people believe that introversion is about being antisocial, and that's really a misperception. Because actually it's just that introverts are differently social. So they would prefer to have a glass of wine with a close friend as opposed to going to a loud party full of strangers.

I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV. I have a million shows on my TiVo.