Quotes About Introversion

I don't particularly want to meet anyone. I'm quite happy by myself. Or at least, I was, back home.

Men are more likely to be introverted than women are, but it's really very slight. But the real difference I think is in how it plays out, how it relates to cultural stereotypes.

I'm good at being on my own. As a kid, I was always in my room alone, so I have a high threshold for it. If I'm bored, I'll read. Hanging around doesn't go well with me.

I've had social anxiety forever - I don't thrive in social or party settings.

Chris was very comfortable in the public eye and thrived in that kind of environment. I, less so.

Throughout my high school years, I was very quiet, I didn't have many friends. I distanced myself from a lot of people.

I was just so blatantly shy throughout my life.

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

As a naturally reserved and quiet person, it's definitely a challenge being thrust into this atmosphere of celebrity and everything that comes along with that. Some parts I'm resisting more than others but can't for much longer, so I'm just trying to find a way to make sense of it all.

If your motivation when you get up in the morning is to have very little contact with anyone, come home, and go to bed as soon as you can, almost everything that occurs during the day will make you feel brittle and irritable, because it's in your way.

I love to watch people. I don't need to be the center of attention. I don't like to suck the air out of a room because there's so much to be gained by just being quiet. I'm like a time release capsule. It may take me 12 hours to fully absorb and suddenly I'm releasing my crazy again.

Like most book people, there was a shadow in his face, a hollow echo in his laugh, that let you know he'd rather be around books than people. Who could blame him? It was why so many of us were in this business. People had let us down. People had broken our hearts. We liked books and animals and messy rooms full of things that weren't people.

People say things to me like, 'It's really cool that you don't go out and get drunk all the time and go to clubs.' I appreciate that, but I'm kind of an introverted kind of person just by nature.

I don't remember spending any time with anybody on set. I don't spend a lot of time with people.

I used to be terribly shy, so I was either shy or over the top, and I always had a difficult time.

A loro piace stare da soli e li incontro molto raramente, perché sono come gli okapi nella giungla del Congo, una specie di antilope, timidissima e rara. E posso andare ovunque nel mondo e so che nessuno mi rivolgerà la parola o mi toccherà o mi farà domande.

Lucy found that nothing would occur to her at that moment worthy of being spoken. There she sat, still and motionless, afraid to take up a book, and thinking in her heart how much happier she would have been at home at the parsonage. She was not made for society; she felt sure of that;

Some friend of yours, perhaps? Except yourself I have none, he answered. I do not encourage visitors.

Without ever wanting to become reserved and shy, she had spent so long alone, with no one to love, that it was difficult for her to talk, even casually, to another person without self-consciousness and an awkward inability to find words.

It's just easier not to be noticed. That way people don't expect things from you. There's no pressure, nothing to fear.

I'm very shy in real life; I can't really hit on girls.

She was an only child, and loneliness was one of the earliest conditions of her life.

I'm Nobody! Who are you?Are you—Nobody—too?Then there's a pair of us!Don't tell! they'd advertise—you know!How dreary—to be—Somebody!How public—like a Frog—To tell one's name—the livelong June—To an admiring Bog!