Shyness Quotes

A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.

Lisa Kleypas

The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.

Philip G. Zimbardo

For a moment, I tried to see myself through the eyes of the girl with the black hair, or even the boy in the cowboy hat, studying my features for a vibration under the skin. The effort was visible in my face, and I felt ashamed. No wonder the boy had seemed disgusted: He must have seen the longing in me. Seen how my face was blatant with need, like an orphan's empty dish. And that was the difference between me and the black-haired girl- her face answered all it's own questions.

Emma Cline

[Schulz] came to see that the better part of his shyness was really vanity, or self-centeredness. "Shyness is an illusion," he would say, late in life. "If you get out and do something and talk to people, you don't have to be shy. Shyness is the overtly self-conscious thinking that you are the only person in the world; that how you look and what you do is of any importance.

David Michaelis

...I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon...

John Geddes

I have always tried to avoid talking to pretty girls, because pretty girls have a vicious effect on me in which every part of my brain is shut down except for the part that says unbelievably stupid things and the part that is aware that I am saying unbelievably stupid things.

David Foster Wallace

It was a relief to inhabit someone else's life for a while, to get her personal issues for a brief respite. In a play, she knew exactly how all her character's problems would be resolved. No matter how the cast performed, the end turned out the same. No questions, no worries, no unknowns.

Alexandra Robbins

Shy people are my favorites. The unmistakable glint of shyness in someone's eyes can mesmerize me for years!

Avijeet Das

People like you don’t go mad, Vi. They’re quiet on the outside and loud on the inside and sane as the day is long

April Genevieve Tucholke

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

Fiona Apple

When he was younger, he used the slightest opportunity to slip away from people, without his being able to understand very clearly why he did so: a longing to break free and to breathe in the fresh air?

Patrick Modiano

It's better to dance like a fool, than to stand around like an idiot.

Oliver Gaspirtz

From the deepest silence between us arose uncertain, utterly vague and, as it were, whispered varieties on the theme ‘smile’.

Nicola Lecca

My days of torment were over, but the damage was done. I conflated the bullies and my bathroom accidents with an inchoate sense that something was wrong with me. I broadcast my sense of otherness through my slumped posture, downcast expression, and extreme timidity. Kids at school called weird so often that after a while I believed them. I hid myself behind a curtain of tangled hair.

Alysia Abbott

I was on the shy side at school (one school report called me ‘diffident’) and Braefield had added a special timidity, but when I had a natural wonder... I lost all my diffidence, and freely approached others, all my fear forgotten.

Oliver Sacks

There were other things,too, to ask him. Always she tries to be less forward. Always she tried to find the right thing to say and didn't trust the etiquette pendulum swinging in her head, so she simply said nothing, which was perceived either as painful shyness of haughtiness. Dasha never had that problem. She just said the first thing that came into her head. Tatiana knew she needed to rust her inner voice more. It was certainly loud enough

Paullina Simons

One of the most dangerous of literary ventures is the little, shy, unimportant heroine whom none of the other characters value. The danger is that your readers may agree with the other characters.

C.S. Lewis

Introverts may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. They tend to dislike conflict. Many have a horror of small talk, but enjoy deep discussions.

Susan Cain

Fluttershyes are like regular shyes, only shinier, and, apparently - also shyer. Whenever petted - they don't flutter, but run away instead.

Will Advise

Silence has always been my default mode—my best defense against the rest of the world.

Matthew Quick

Your shyness alone will bring you more emotional and material losses than all of your other negative attributes.

Amit Kalantri

So, what's up with you and Damian?" Helena

Lisa Ann Sandell

The idea that you are not good enough and that people will not like you is something that has been ingrained into your mind over many years. You have hundreds of experiences that you can call up as evidence of the fact that people will not like you -- and that things will not turn out well. These ideas are incredibly convincing. They compel us to hesitate, to shy away, and to avoid the situations -- and people -- that we find frightening. This sets up a reinforcing cycle, where we avoid reaching out, don't get good responses from others as a result, and then gain further evidence that we are not worthy. In order to truly overcome your social anxiety at a deep, gut level, you must repeatedly take bold action. It is only through trying something new, and with a different perspective, that you learn to see the world and the people around you in a different light.

Aziz Gazipura

Being shy is a symptom of a low self-esteem.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It's not that easy to find someone I can relate to. I'm tough to crack because I'm shy.

Kristin Kreuk

Friends are a wonderful thing. They won't make you feel like a nothing.

Justine Hail

Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.

Penelope Keith

If you love sex, let it be known. You don’t have to walk around downtown naked or have some flyers printed up, but definitely don’t be shy about your love (or obsession) for sex.

Roberto Hogue

A Coy Aversion...a fluttertoo shyto be seen...

Muse

feeling shy is simply replacing courage with the feeling and fear of how others will perceive or what they will say about us after and act. Courage dares regardless

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

But she wished she had had the guts to go up to him and say hello. Or possibly break his legs, she wasn't sure which.

Stieg Larsson

My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.

Dejan Stojanovic

Leah looked at her parents, lost in their own fantasies, and decided that the three of them were a pretty pathetic family - but she wasn't sure who was more pathetic: the dateless girl spending the night of the big dance by herself in her bedroom, or the parents who foolishly believed a boy would arrive on their doorstep with flowers, a limo, and a promise to rescue their daughter from her solitude.

J.M. Reep

There's a difference between disclosing that which is only your business and hiding away from the world and not seeing, shining and sharing your magic.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Don’t feel shy—kiss. Kiss just to feel the joy of life and to get lost in the beauty of love.

Debasish Mridha

Well, we never expected this!" they all say. "No one liked her. They all said she was pretentious, awkward, difficult to approach, prickly, too fond of her tales, haughty, prone to versifying, disdainful, cantankerous, and scornful. But when you meet her, she is strangely meek, a completely different person altogether!"How embarrassing! Do they really look upon me as a dull thing, I wonder? But I am what I am.

Murasaki Shikibu

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Into the dark night Resignedly I go, I am not so afraid of the dark night As the friends I do not know,I do not fear the night aboveAs I fear the friends below.

Stevie Smith

When you get shy, you’re simply thinking of yourself. Stop it. Step out of yourself.

Kamand Kojouri

Call it anything else if you will—fear, anxiety, nervousness, sweating—but “shyness” is the historic word for it.

Richard N. Bolles

What he feared the most was that all this hiding had made it impossible for him to ever be found again.

John Corey Whaley

The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail forever.

Daphne du Maurier

Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.

Criss Jami

The love of books was an instant connection, and a true boon for a girl who tended toward shyness, because it was a source of endless conversation.

Tessa Dare

I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.

Daphne du Maurier

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