Quotes About Introversion

I was definitely always the bigger girl and kind of weird. I didn't make friends very easily and I was a big reader, so I was very antisocial, and I knew that people were judging me.

I've never had like many friends, I've had a few. It's just something that's in my character, in my personality.

If I were really being myself. I'd just curl up in the corner and knit.

If, however, we look upon introversion (or, as I prefer to call it, neurotic detachment) as a means of evading conflicts that arise in close contact with others, the task is not to encourage more extraversion but to analyze the underlying conflicts. The goal of wholeheartedness can be approximated only after these have been resolved.

I sometimes wear headphones even though I'm not listening to anything just so I'm left alone. It's the next best thing to wearing a 'Do Not Disturb' sign.

In common with other bookish types, I have always existed partly in the shadows. Skulked around the edges of things. Chosen quiet times and deserted places. Enjoyed the gloomy nooks and crannies of life. Maybe assumed that this was true for everyone and learned to have just enough of a daytime public face to pass, while I retreated into my own elsewhere. And this was something I always enjoyed: the ability to maintain a secret elsewhere life.

whole. Introverts may be able to fit all their friends in a phone booth, but those relationships tend to be deep and rewarding.

Faking it is exactly what a lot of introverts learn to do from an early age.

Simply being an introvert can also feel taxing—especially in America, land of the loud and home of the talkative.

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking.

high-reactive infants matured into more inhibited, introverted teenagers.

extroverts are a little bit like addicts who are always in search of a high, seeking out stimuli—in the healthier form of social situations—that would make an introvert's head ring. In

Just about every adult introvert can remember being scolded, even if gently, for being too quiet as a kid.

I'm a very introverted person. Nothing that's happened has changed that, but one of the reasons I write for teens is it's a real privilege to have a seat at the table in the lives of young people when they're figuring out what matters to them.

When I was younger and went on holiday with my family, I'd be almost agoraphobic. I would just want to be on my Game Boy and not speak to anyone.

Believe it or not, I was a pretty shy youngster growing up.

It's important for a parent to learn to take delight in a child whose behavior might seem mystifying. In the case of an extroverted parent with an introverted child, it can be learning to see the inner riches of your child that may not always be expressed on the surface - but are there.

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

I learned drumming as a second instrument because I didn't want to sing. Sometimes I would quite like to be left in the back, in the darkness by myself.

I like to do what I do in my house and I love to play shows, but I don't want to have to go out and talk to a bunch of people I don't know.

Some people do want to stand on the rooftop and scream out their story. Others are cowering in the corner, or sitting with a blank face in class, and not knowing how to tell their story.

I've never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring.

Comicons and Science Fiction conventions are always fun. Besides, the days of the secluded writer are long gone. What's ironic is that the modern age has forced the most introverted, shy, and anxious segment of the population into the limelight. Adapt or disappear, and for most of us, conventions are a safe place in which we can learn how to be public figures. And then there's the blowhards? Did I mention the blowhards?

Bayard is not exactly the sort of person anyone could describe as a friend," he said. "He exists in a universe populated solely by himself.