Quotes About Introversion

I actually like spending time alone - it doesn't bother me at all.

It was my temper to avoid a crowd, and to attach myself fervently to a few.

the city usually only dulled and interrupted him. He required quiet, and to keep himself to himself, more than any writer he'd known. He was a shy beast who loved his burrow.

It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.

Like a lot of other bashful introverts, I discovered that I like teaching a lot because it's like acting. When I stepped into the classroom, I stepped into a role, one that allowed me to forget myself.

She often found that when everything felt a little too much, she could not talk to anyone, even if she actually wanted to. She had a tendency to go where other people were not, to step into shadows when people walked toward her. She had a fondness for headphones and screens and ducking away, even as part of her wanted to be with friends. Which meant she was going to the library to find some people who were probably dead.

Well, the club is open until three in the morning and she works every day. So, by the time she gets home…" "I get the picture," I said. Though in fact, it was a little hard to imagine Harry with an attachment that didn't have an Ethernet cable and a mouse. He was an introverted, socially stunted guy, with no contacts I knew of outside of his day job, which he kept at arm's length in any event, and me. Conditions that had always made him useful.

How many people have never raised their hand before?

introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness

She has simply never quite learned to walk or hold herself comfortably, which makes her come off as an attractive wallflower.

I love film sets, but I don't necessarily love being the center of attention.

Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.

I'm a little bit antisocial and I recently discovered that I'm introverted. But the love between people makes me alive.

I hate people but I love gatherings.

Convincing someone to stay isolated in the middle of nowhere is mostly determined by whether that someone has an affinity for being alone. I discovered the ability in myself by crawling into books when I was young, disappearing into worlds I'd never seen, reading conversations between people I would never meet, absorbing life lessons through characters overcoming odds I would most likely never face.

I'll probably just stand in a corner, trying not to be noticed, until the decoration committee accidentally packs me into a box at the end of the night. There I will lie, crammed in between rolls of crepe paper, until the New Year's dance two months from now. Jeffrey thought about this for a moment and said, Won't they notice the box is too heavy when they go to put it away?

Going outside is highly overrated. —Anorak's Almanac, Chapter 17, Verse 32

I remember when I used to go to coaches' meetings and stuff like that and I would never say anything - I would just sit in a corner and sometimes coaches wouldn't even shake my hand.

In elementary school, I think all my report cards said, 'Emily plays well alone.'

I'm kind of a homebody. My husband says I like to just stay home and do nothing, but that's just how I am.

To some extent, we've always had an admiration for extroversion in our culture. But the extrovert ideal really came to play at the turn of the 20th century when we had the rise of big business.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.

I have a really hard time meeting people, so I wanted to take classes to get out of my social shell. Eventually, I opened up and realized, 'Wow, I really enjoy this.'