Quotes About Introversion

I don't go to parties to meet men. I go to parties to stand in a corner and watch people.

And, as a confessing introvert, I absolutely love shopping without people around.

I don't like going out. I'm more of a watch TV, hang out, Netflix kind of guy. I don't like leaving; I don't like talking to people. It gives me anxiety.

I just have no interest in being at a party.

Helen is one of those people who never say anything, not because she's shy but because she's learned—in a way I always mean to—that if you don't say anything, you make people far more nervous and self-conscious and careful around you than if you do. People like me, we just rush into the vacuum of silence people like Helen float around in; we blather and dither and yakyakyak, and people like Helen just sit there and smile into the wind.

clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

She was, on the contrary, inclined to be silent; she shrank from expressing herself even in talk, let alone in writing.

I've always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new kid is it takes a while to make new friends. But I always had my books.

Kay came to realize that she preferred her books to other people's company. Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.

But I'm really not quiet. I just tend to come across that way to new people because I don't like to talk first. What if the other person doesn't want to be bothered?

I just have a hard time with small talk. My friend Jocelyn says I'm too quiet. But I'm really not quiet. I just tend to come across that way to new people because I don't like to talk first. What if the other person doesn't want to be bothered?

I didn't like being alone. Being alone was slightly better than having to deal with people, that's all. Or so I'd convinced myself.

But he was fine keeping mostly to himself.

His parents never go out or entertain; they have no dinner parties, no bridge group, no hunting buddies or luncheon pals. Like Lydia, no real friends.

I don't hate people. I just feel better when they aren't around.

Do you hate people?" "I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.

All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I'm relatively available, but not to live with.

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I don't speak much at all, I am not the life of the party and "I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. I'm just Me. And I'm pretty fine with that.

it wasn't that the forty-eight-year-old doctor didn't like people; he simply liked being alone better.

Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them. Parenting can pose unique challenges for introverted parents, who fear that their own painful experiences will be repeated in their children's lives.

I can be shy when I talk to women. I'm a shy dude.

I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have.

I hate going into a room with people in it and the feeling of them staring. I find every moment excruciating.