Introvert Quotes - Page 2

I recognize the power of silence in an extroverted world but there is a time for silence and a time to speak up about things that matter that continue to be left unsaid.

Matthew Donnelly

An introvert talks more than an extrovert because when the mouth is closed, the mind is opened.

Michael Bassey Johnson

It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain.

A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Ah, yes, the mix tape. The mating call of the introvert.

Sophia Dembling

You might be an introvert if you were ready to go home before you left the house.

I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.

There is this common notion that people are shallow and ignorant until they go out and see the world. I, on the other hand, went out and in comparison realized I was in pretty good standing.

The internet is where some people go to show their true intelligence; others, their hidden stupidity.

Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith.

When a bookworm finally decides to leave the house, perhaps to explore some literary destination in one of her novels, she will be surprised to know that there is a volatile, often antagonistic force in the real world known as the weather.

If we can't have world peace, I'll settle for a quiet room.

He always thinks because I'm reading, I'm not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.

My idea of a fun night was diving into a massive pile of To Be Read pile of books stacked near my dresser... I was the girl who loved everything geeky.

I don't need to be vocal about my intentions, I am just intentional about my actions.

Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There is no window to look outside.There is no window to look within.Open the doors.

Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they're not around other people.

Garth Risk Hallberg

I thought how true it was that the world was a delightful place if it were not for the people, and how more than true it was that people were not worth troubling about, and that wise men should set their affections upon nothing smaller than cities, heavenly or otherwise, and countrysides which are always heavenly.

Katherine Mansfield

Introverts live in two worlds: We visit the world of people, but solitude and the inner world will always be our home.

As an introvert, you crave intimate moments and deep connections--and those usually aren't found in a crowd.

I wish I could think about nothing, but the books all the time. I have never had an alcoholic rampage because of thinking about books too much...

I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the

Be silent & you are considered on idiot. Be voluble & you are considered a nuisance. The perfect balance between speaking and remaining silent makes you a gentleman!

Sometimesi don't haveenough soulin my cheeksto show myface to theworld.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

Introverts don’t see life as one big cocktail party. We’re content with just a few meaningful relationships.

After college, I started working in the gallery and found myself surrounded by a whole new set of people who had not yet grown accustomed to my antisocial tendencies, who had not yet learned to expect me to say no, and stopped asking. I was invited to go drinking and dancing again, and so, I tried.

Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.

Betty realized that when it came to relationships with other human beings, she would always feel alone. And yet there was this place – this small special place inside of her – a place where quiet beauty was embraced, a place where memories became fantasies and where fantasies became memories. Like a pebble, Betty could lose herself within this place, this opulent ocean, and yet even if the water were to one day reject her too, even if it were to cast her back up onto its shores, she knew that she would catch the light of the sun again.

Heather Babcock

Mais, j’aurai beau supplier, j’aurai beau me révolter, il n’y aura plus rien pour moi ; je ne serai, désormais, ni heureux, ni malheureux. Je ne peux pas ressusciter. Je vieillirai aussi tranquille que je le suis aujourd’hui dans cette chambre où tant d’êtres ont laissé leur trace, où aucun être n’a laissé la sienne.Cette chambre, on la retrouve à chaque pas. C’est la chambre de tout le monde. On croit qu’elle est fermée, non : elle est ouverte aux quatre vents de l’espace. Elle est perdue au milieu des chambres semblables, comme de la lumière dans le ciel, comme un jour dans les jours, comme moi partout.Moi, moi ! Je ne vois plus maintenant que la pâleur de ma figure, aux orbites profondes, enterrée dans le soir, et ma bouche pleine d’un silence qui doucement, mais sûrement, m’étouffe et m’anéantit.Je me soulève sur mon coude comme sur un moignon d’aile. Je voudrais qu’il m’arrivât quelque chose d’infini !

There is a certain delightful sort of hope which the introvert can receive only by having company over...the hope that they will leave soon.

Whenever they say I am outgoing, I say...We must have met on the dance floor

I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side.

A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real danger is that so many people find rumors enjoyable. That part causes the infection. And in such cases when a rumor is only partially made of truth, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly where the information may have gone wrong. It is passed on and on until some brave soul questions its validity; that brave soul refuses to bite the apple and let the apple eat him. Forced to start from scratch for the sake of purity and truth, that brave soul, figuratively speaking, fully amputates the information in order to protect his personal judgment. In other words, his ignorance is to be valued more than the lie believed to be true.

Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.

A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.