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Quotes About Introversion

They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are.
~ Paulo Coelho
She'd heard that the author Margaret Mitchell had never lived in a place with more than one bedroom for a simple reason: She had never wanted houseguests.
~ David Baldacci
Supongo que ser tímido significa básicamente estar absorbido por uno mismo hasta el punto de que se hace difícil estar rodeado de otras personas
~ David Foster Wallace
Supongo que ser tímido significa básicamente estar absorbido por uno mismo hasta el punto en que estar rodeado de otras personas se hace realmente difícil
~ David Foster Wallace
can go for weeks without hearin' the sound of a human voice. And I love it, Melody. I love it. I don't need people the way you do. Hell, I don't even like most people.
~ William W. Johnstone
I can go for weeks without hearin' the sound of a human voice. And I love it, Melody. I love it. I don't need people the way you do. Hell, I don't even like most people.
~ William W. Johnstone
Nadie imagina todos los alaridos que se ocultan tras el silencio de los tímidos. Dejaríamos sordo al universo entero si nos lo propusiéramos.
~ Xavier Velasco
I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.
~ Christopher Walken
He was somewhat of a loner by temperament--because though never wholly happy when alone, he was usually slightly more miserable when with other people.
~ Colin Dexter
She thought it must be a lonely life for a boy who hated books.
~ Unknown
Oh, Lord. Tess could feel her entire personality being drained from her body. Those talkative, energetic people always left her feeling that way.
~ Liane Moriarty
When she was a child her mother had once told her shyness was almost a form of selfishness. "You see, when you hang your head like that, darling, people think you don't like them!
~ Liane Moriarty
Tess could feel her entire personality being drained from her body. Those talkative, energetic people always left her feeling that way.
~ Liane Moriarty
Stiles is a version of me that rarely exists in the real world. He's so confident and extroverted, and I'm much more restrained and internal.
~ Dylan O'Brien
he'd never been a people person. He was a science person. A mind person.
~ Jeffery Deaver
Only Sebastian really knew what she was going through. Her demons, as she called them. Jessica never stopped chattering whenever they were on their own, but the moment she became the centre of attention, like a tortoise she slipped back into her shell, hoping no one would notice her.
~ Jeffrey Archer
To be misunderstood is the shy man's fate on every occasion; and whatever impression he endeavors to create, he is sure to convey its opposite.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
She taught me to revel. She taught me to wonder. She taught me to laugh. My sense of humor had always measured up to everyone else's; but timid introverted me, I showed it sparingly: I was a smiler. In her presence I threw back my head and laughed out loud for the first time in my life
~ Jerry Spinelli
I enjoyed my own company enough that I didn't feel the need to socialize with people who exhausted me.
~ Jess Lourey
I was shy and struggling with it.
~ Asher Keddie
You would think, because I stayed to myself and I was shy, that I'd be a good student, but actually, I was a bad student. I was in detention a lot, mainly for cutting, being late to class. I was in tardy hall a lot. I hate the idea of homework. I don't get it.
~ Bryson Tiller
You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.
~ Susan Lucci
Like many isolated people, they were wrapped up in themselves and not too interested in the world outside.
~ V.S. Naipaul
There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.
~ Susan Cain