“But he was quite consciously afraid of society, which he knew by instinct to be a malevolent, partly insane beast.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I've always been comfortable with my gayness, but I was intimidated by the social anxiety. — Syd Copy Share Image
I do think economic and social anxiety is the number one issue. And I'm pretty confident Hillary Clinton will be really riding… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“It is easy to criticize the antisocial, but hard to get close to know what keeps them at bay.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I did have friends who have suffered from schizophrenia and mild dissociative identity disorder, as well as more extreme cases of social… — Sam Esmail Copy Share Image
“Though I am naturally curious about people, I'm also naturally uneasy when they are right in front of me; when I am… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
“Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.” — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“I swear that I will never cause trouble for anybody, as long as I live!! So please! Nobody cause any trouble for… — Minoru Furuya Copy Share Image
“I learned years ago that it’s okay to do this. To seek out small spaces for me, to stop and imagine myself… — Francesca Zappia Copy Share Image
“We do not have to dig deep into history to understand the reality. The examples of Saddam Hussain, who was executed after… — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
You know, I've struggled with a certain amount of social anxiety throughout my life, and the best tool that I feel like… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
You have social media and the Internet and immigration and so, suddenly, cultures are clashing and people feel as if they're less… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“I went on to spend an inordinate amount of my childhood bashfully attached to my mother's pelvis, mostly out of social anxiety,… — Matt Bellassai Copy Share Image
Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. They are also dirty, rackety, packed with strangers,… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that's part… — Adam Duritz Copy Share Image
“ Cognitive Therapy Instead of behavior, cognitive therapy emphasizes changing thoughts and beliefs. Cognitive therapists believe that irrational beliefs or distorted thinking… — Heather Moehn Copy Share Image
“Besides the physical responses to an anxiety-causing situation, you may feel chronic stress or tension. Many people with social anxiety go through… — Heather Moehn Copy Share Image
“First, understand that “ shyness ” and social anxiety are two closely related dynamics: Both terms describe a learned response to social… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
“ The History of Social Anxiety The fact that some people are shyer than others has been observed since ancient times. However,… — Heather Moehn Copy Share Image
“ A Final Word Now that you have become familiar with social anxiety, you know that it is a common problem, especially… — Heather Moehn Copy Share Image
“ A CHANGING SOCIETY What does today’s high incidence of social anxiety tell us about modern society? As we’ve seen, social anxiety… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
“At cocktail parties, I played the part of a successful businessman's wife to perfection. I smiled, I made polite chit-chat, and I… — Suzie Burke Copy Share Image
“I’ve often heard it said that everything new starts with a thought. Here is yours: My social anxiety symptoms are temporary and… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
“ Adam: Of course, the pressure Adam was feeling was not just related to the math test. The roots of his anxiety… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
“What we can see in most societies is the gravity of suffering, tears of sorrow and nightmares of hopelessness.” — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
From restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm Of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, But rush upon me thronging. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Paul walked with something screwed up tight inside him. He would have suffered much physical pain rather than this unreasonable suffering at… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
You don't feel like you have to interact with a whole bunch of people when you get on Flipboard. It's not a… — Mike McCue Copy Share Image
“I don't want to say hello, nor do I want him to know that I've seen him and failed to say hello.” — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
Social anxiety- When someone doesn't text you back, and the reasonable part of you knows they're probably busy, but the anxiety convinces… — Amanda Day Copy Share Image
I had social anxiety to the max. I was scared of my own shadow! But as I grew, I got more comfortable… — Ser'Darius Blain Copy Share Image
For most of my life, I was a worrier and an over-thinker. I had pretty bad social anxiety. — Rob Corddry Copy Share Image
“I think Vaughn has Social Anxiety Disorder but he's too much of a control freak to give in to it.” — Sarra Manning Copy Share Image
The shy and the extroverted have this in common — that they both fancy they are the center of attention. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“In familiar surroundings our manners are cheerful and easy, but only transport us to places where we know no one and no… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
No one is moved to act, or resolves to speak a single word, who does not hope by means of this action… — Ibn Hazm Copy Share Image
Status and class and social anxiety and perhaps social code are all released when you look at paintings of powerful individuals from… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Penology...has become torture and foolishness, a waste of money and a cause of crime...a blotting out of sight and heightening of social… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
