Quotes About Introversion

To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment

No one was in better position than I to know how easily shyness gets misread for arrogance or coldness or indifference.

Maybe she was a wallflower. There was no shame in that. Especially not if one enjoyed being a wallflower.

I'm really not that comfortable with people. I mean, I love individuals, but I'm not very social.

I'm not the guy who bursts into the room. I'm the most insecure person you'll meet if you get to know me.

I don't interact with people much.

I'm not designed to interact with society.

I can interact with anybody, but I'm shy.

gatherings I would sit quietly in a corner, saying nothing. I looked and observed a good deal. I've always been that way and still am. I was anything but expansive. I was a loner—can't remember ever

Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where I'd keep the book hidden so I could read during class. Before long I bought a small stereo and spent all my time in my room, listening to jazz records. But I had almost no desire to talk to anyone about the experience I gained through books and music. I felt happy just being me and no one else. In that sense I could be called a stack-up loner.

I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.

The absence of conversation didn't bother Kafuku. He wasn't good at small talk. While he didn't dislike talking to people he knew well about things that mattered, he otherwise preferred to remain silent.

I've built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself. Who could like somebody like that?

I could never get excited about games you play with other people. I can't get into them. I lose interest.

My music is often written from the perspective of an extroverted introvert.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

Throughout my entire three years at Sussex I never spoke to another law student. I talked in tutorials but as soon as they finished I was away back to my room to listen to my records.

I'm trained in science, believe in logic, and like to think there's an explanation for everything. And I'm truly not really at ease with other people.

I've always been shy; it's just that I transform on the pitch. I'm a different person. Off the pitch, I'm another person. That's how it has to be.

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

Nine out of ten introverts agree: The telephone is the tool of the devil.

It's not that introverts aren't good team players. We just don't need to be in the same room as the rest of the team at all times. We would much prefer to have part of the project carved out for us to squirrel away with it in our offices, consulting as necessary but working independently.

Another explained, "I think I'd speak for any introvert when I say if you could hear all the thoughts running through an introvert's mind at any given moment—you'd feel like you'd just had your ear talked off for the last hour.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with finding our own thoughts more interesting than a long story about someone's husband's niece's gum surgery. Introverts