Quotes About Introversion

There's so much stuff that you see every day that you want to talk about, but I'm not the type to open up, so the only way I could open up is through music.

How you treat the quiet, shy types is the most important. If you leave them to sit in a corner, they will be noticed, and it will affect everyone's time. I instantly spring on them and treat them as royalty, showing them around and introducing them to everyone so they seem special.

Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert.

As a child I was painfully embarrassed by everything, always blushing and unable to make eye contact.

Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.

Spare a thought for the poor introverts among us. In a world of party animals and glad-handers, they're the ones who stand by the punch bowl. In a world of mixers and pub crawls, they prefer to stay home with a book. Everywhere around them, cell phones ring and e-mails chime and they just want a little quiet.

I don't look into myself too much. I don't think I'm shy so much as a better listener than I am a speaker. I just really don't wish for attention.

I'm not much of a public speaker.

I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree.

Some introverts are perfectly comfortable with public speaking; I'm not one of them.

When it comes to our relationship with loneliness, specifically, it's important to understand how our relative introversion or extroversion informs our preference for social interaction.

I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump.

If you're very introverted, you prefer to spend much of your time alone, and when you do connect, you'd rather get together with one or two close friends than face a crowd.

It's bloody annoying being shy. I'll spend a whole evening at a party asking everyone else about themselves. I'm not being self-deprecating; it's because I'm too shy to talk about myself. So people come away from the evening actually having learnt nothing about me.

I've become more introverted as I've got older. I used to be an outgoing person who joked around a lot, but as the amount of energy I expend by sharing my music has increased, I like to balance it by spending time by myself and recuperating.

I was very, very quiet. I was always a loner, hardly spoke, and I was quite a nerd in school. So I was an outsider always.

To Randy the party is like any other: he shakes hands with a few people, forgets their names, finds a place to sit down, and enjoys the wine and the food in blissful solitude.

I think, like, in real life, I'm actually quiet, and I mumble a lot. But that's not very lucrative.

I was sort of mute when I went to art school. There were two girls there who thought I was German because I only grunted.

He wasn't worried about being alone. He was used to it. He'd been alone most of his life, even in the midst of a crowd. He could handle that, no problem.

As she'd grown, she moved through life in silence, hoping not to be noticed, afraid of drawing attention to herself.

Karasik, Natasja – verlegen

I almost never like people, even in tiny doses. But I never get tired of being with you.

One thing I've started to suspect about myself is that I'm some kind of confusingly extroverted introvert. I just want to sit here on the couch with a tumblerful of the good booze Alice brought, soak in the music and the conversation, and not talk to anyone. I want to be invisible and lie down on the couch and fall asleep to the muffled sounds of conversation, like a child in the back seat of the car being driven safely through the night by grown-ups who love her.