Introversion Quotes

“There's a lot of beauty in quiet strength.”
― Debbie Tung, Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert's Story

“In public Nina was a quiet, reserved person; in private she was an all-singing, all-dancing cavalcade of light and motion. Unless she was a quivering ball of anxiety, because that was also a frequently selected option.”
― Abbi Waxman, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

“It’s important, however, to understand that being introverted is different from being shy or antisocial. Shyness is insecurity or fear of social embarrassment, and the word “antisocial” describes someone who has hostile or harmful feelings toward society. Introversion is a preference that has to do with where you direct your energy (inward), how you recharge (usually by being alone), and what level of outside stimulation you’re comfortable with (less is more). It’s not a weakness to overcome or something to be cured. It’s just how some of us are designed.”
― Aaron Caycedo-Kimura, Text, Don't Call: An Illustrated Guide to the Introverted Life

“Pessimism is the result of too much culture and introversion.”
― Charles Godfrey Leland, Aradia: Gospel of the Witches

“All representatives of the ideology of power, which is based on a false conception of the self, fear people who are inner-directed and have contempt for them because it is a fear that cannot be acknowledged. It makes no difference if one is on the right or left politically. What we are faced with on all sides is an obsession with power, rather than an openness to reality with all its rich and vital possibilities.”
― Arno Gruen, The Insanity of Normality: Toward Understanding Human Destructiveness

“Since the Internet has conquered human interaction, let me deepen my subscription
to introversion.”
― Makuochukwu Okigbo

“Not antisocial, just wanted some peace
Yes, I have a low tolerance for superficialities
Quiet on the outside but my mind's a chaos
Music, movies, poetry, and cosmos
What makes life worth living?
Yes, I do love overthinking
Alone but never lonely
My mind's perpetually busy
of things, not everyone might comprehend
I usually do not follow the trend
Not a snob, more of a wallflower
a loner who celebrates solitude like no other.”
― Miss Rainbow Moonfire

“Now, don't sigh for envy at my week-end; I am sure it is to be dull, my dear, and you know my horrible shyness and how I loathe such things. If only I had your vivacity and beauty! Alas, what we love in others does not always suit ourselves. I shall get through the weekend by wishing you in my place.”
― Lauren Groff, The Monsters of Templeton

“I am seated here
Alone
A thousand miles away
From everybody
But if I have myself
And my sanity
I’ve got nothing else to lose”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Why do I have to exhaust myself trying to pretend to enjoy someone’s company? Or to like something? It hurts everyone involved. I laugh at their bad jokes and they continue to say them. I answer, “I’m great,” and we grow farther apart, or I say “yes” and lose another night where I could be alone instead. The nicest thing we can tell some people is that we are better off without them.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“If you like to do things in a slow and steady way, don’t let others make you feel as if you have to race. If you enjoy depth, don’t force yourself”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“He was a strange mix--congenial but reserved in a way that told you being friendly was an act of will.”
― Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle

“I've also learned how to fit in, but constantly trying to do so is more than just uncomfortable now, it hurts. Because I don't. Fit. I fold my jagged edges inside myself and smooth over the most obvious differences between us, but I am not the same as you. There are over 7 billion people on the planet, and yet I have somehow managed to spend a lifetime feeling alone.”
― Alice Feeney, His & Hers

“Introverts are like the stars in star apples.
They don’t feel the need to reveal themselves, except someone rips them open.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them." In the midst of two or three hundred, the divine presence becomes more problematical. And when the numbers run into thousands, the likelihood of God being there, in the consciousness of every individual, declines almost to the vanishing point. For such is the nature of an excited crowd (and every crowd is automatically self-excited) that, where two or three thousand are gathered together, there is an absence not merely of deity, but even of common humanity.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Devils of Loudun

“When the extraverted were with someone who was highly introverted, they liked not having to be so cheerful. And the introverted found conversing with the extraverted “a breath of fresh air.” The picture we gain from Thorne is that each type contributes something to this world that is equally important.”
― Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

“I would rather be bored alone than with someone else. I'm drawn to strange people. At a museum I look at people with the eyes of an artist, in the streets with my own. I can't remember the name of a person I have just met. In India, I travelled in a train compartment with a Swiss man I didn't know, we were crossing the plains of Kerala, I told him more about myself in several hours than I had told my best friends in several years, I knew I would never see him again, he was an ear without repercussions. Maybe I'm writing this book so I won't have to talk to anymore.”
― Édouard Levé, Autoportrait

“Mintea ei era un loc de joacă uriaș.”
― Mara Chelcioiu, La umbra unui vis

“There have been plenty of people in my life - family, friends, colleagues, lovers, a forecast of the usual suspects that make a person's social circle - but mine has always felt a little bent out of shape. None of the relationships I've ever formed with another human being feel real to me, more like a series of missed connections. People might recognize my face, they may even know my name, but they'll never know the real me. Nobody does. I've always been selfish with the true thoughts and feelings inside my head. I don't share them with anyone because I can't. There is a version of me I can only ever be with myself.”
― Alice Feeney, His & Hers

“I’m sorry, I don’t mean to be rude, but why are you speaking in exclamation points?" asked Lina. "You do it in your e-mails too. You know you can end sentences with periods and I won’t think you’re an asshole?”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“I’m not a Sasquatch, a tortoise or even a clam,
it is what it is, I am who I am.
You be you, and I’ll be me,
I do what I do, because it’s my preferred way to be”
― Avra Davidoff, My Preferred Way To Be

“In a study of 132 college
students at Humboldt University in Berlin,
the psychologists Jens Aspendorf
and Susanne Wilpers set out to understand
the effect of different personality
traits on students’ relationships with
their peers and families. They focused
on the so-called Big Five traits:
Introversion-Extroversion; Agreeableness;
Openness to Experience; Conscientiousness;
and Emotional Stability.
(Many personality psychologists believe
that human personality can be boiled
down to these five characteristics.)
Aspendorf and Wilpers predicted that
the extroverted students would have an
easier time striking up new friendships
than the introverts, and this was indeed
the case. But if the introverts were truly
antisocial and extroverts pro-social,
then you’d suppose that the students
with the most harmonious relationships
would also be highest in extroversion.
And this was not the case at all. Instead,
the students whose relationships
were freest of conflict had high scores
for agreeableness. Agreeable people are
warm, supportive, and loving; personality
psychologists have found that if you
sit them down in front of a computer
screen of words, they focus longer than
others do on words like caring, console,
and help, and a shorter time on words
like abduct, assault, and harass. Introverts
and extroverts are equally likely
to be agreeable; there is no correlation
between extroversion and agreeableness.
This explains why some extroverts
love the stimulation of socializing but
don’t get along particularly well with
those closest to them.”
― Susain Cain

“Your uniqueness as an introvert is something that should be recognized and celebrated, use it to your advantage.”
― Terrance Lee

“Huy smiled every time he remembered to smile, to send a message that he wasn't unhappy. He had learned how to stop people from asking him what was wrong. He wasn't unhappy, he was happy to come and he was happy to watch and he was happy to listen and laugh. He figured his friends must have thought he did not have any opinions on the things they were discussing, but he did, and he wrote them down when he got home.
Just because you're not good at speaking, doesn't mean you're not good at listening and thinking, he wrote on the inside front cover of his black and white speckled composition notebook.”
― Ani Baker, Handsome Vanilla

“Avea multe impresii în general, jumătate din viața ei se întâmpla doar în capul ei.”
― Mara Chelcioiu, La umbra unui vis

“My antidote is to constantly create a world for me and stick to it. I don’t go out much. When I do, people start planting thoughts in my head that I don’t want. I would go home and think their thoughts. Bad seeds... unimportant seeds and I lose my streak of knowing what’s true. That’s where I’m at. I’ve this need to be sensitive to my inner voice. And what feeds that are movies I like... the book I’m reading... some paintings. Instead, when I am with others, my mind is occupied with repetitious jokes, and their envy, and ego. My antidote is the equivalent of a cozy castle of reality—protecting things and people I choose," she said. "A customized balance of my favorite worlds.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, A Happy Ghost

“Introverts just get more out of a peaceful sunset evening than a large crowd partying together.”
― Ajaz Ahmad Khawaja

“Ideological introversion manifests not as a retreat from society, but as a retreat from discourse; it is the solitary journey of decision-making, where debate is replaced by the quiet birth of resolution.”
― Syed Buali Gillani

“Mi ritroverò accerchiato da persone che si chiedono a vicenda perché me ne stia in un angolo senza rivolgere parola a nessuno. Io mi sto divertendo ad ascoltare musica, anche se non è la stessa che sento quando sono solo; non è male stare accanto a persone nuove, è solo stancante. Ma il mio viso non si piega per dimostrarlo e le persone non mi credono quando dico la verità.”
― Nora Cenere, La costellazione del cane

“Introversion is not something you fix via extroversion. You fix it by seeing it as something not to be fixed. So let introversion exist. Allow those journeys inward as well as outward.”
― Matt Haig, The Comfort Book