Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“The ones who stay unnoticed often see the most. They live out other people's lives, since their own are so unremarkable...” — Setona Mizushiro Copy Share Image
I'm quite shy, so if there's a guy I like, I actually ignore him because I can't speak to him. I get… — Silvia Colloca Copy Share Image
“Was I hiding from reality, on the outside looking in? Or, was I living my reality, on the outside looking out?” — Heather Durham Copy Share Image
A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“And when I'm lonely, with everyone around I go to my happy place where I'm alone” — Talia Basma Copy Share Image
I do give interviews, but I am generally media-shy because I am an introvert by nature. — Fawad Khan Copy Share Image
I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's… — Courteney Cox Copy Share Image
Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“I thought how true it was that the world was a delightful place if it were not for the people, and how… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
We're told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable. We see ourselves as a… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“She might be a little introverted, livelier of movement than of conversation, neither bashful nor forward, with a soul that seemed submerged,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I'm really an inner spirit that only makes itself known through the music. A lot of people think I'm an introvert, or… — Faith Evans Copy Share Image
Just because you dont say much doesnt mean people dont notice you. Its actually the quiet ones who often draw the most… — Karim Seddiki Copy Share Image
“Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can. This does not mean aping extroverts; ideas… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“The world’s refusal to leave me out of its activities made me consider its destruction. Bring on the wave. Please, the asteroid.” — Adam Nevill Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
IM sHy-iM qUiEt ..An AnGeL iN dIsGuIsE.. iM LoUd-Im CrAzY ..a TrU dEvIL iNsIdE.. — Matthew Copy Share Image
“We are troubled by having two selves, the inner and the outer. The outer one is rather dull and lets great things… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I am a mild introvert. But I have learned to be a very successful extrovert because if you want impact, you have… — Patrick Pichette Copy Share Image
I'm an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I'll go stand in the corner. — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
I tend to be more of an introvert when I'm traveling. I do a lot of people-watching and espresso-drinking. — Antoni Porowski Copy Share Image
The weird thing about me is that I'm naturally an introvert, so I don't talk to people. — Eli Drake Copy Share Image
I have this personality, where I'm a natural introvert in my personal life, but when you give me a camera and microphone,… — Eli Drake Copy Share Image
“The most effective teams are composed of a healthy mix of introverts and extroverts, studies show, and so are many leadership structures.” — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements. — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert. — Paula Cole Copy Share Image
I enjoyed the discipline and solitariness of long-distance running, which allowed me to escape from the hurly-burly of school life. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
My worst trait is that I'm an introvert. When I've led stuff, the hardest thing for me to overcome has been my… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
When I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
the present Western civilization ... is dominated by the extravert viewpoint. There are plenty of reasons for this domination: extraverts are more… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner.… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The same person who would never raise his hand in a lecture hall of two hundred people might blog to two thousand,… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
In fiction you're not often writing about the typical; you are interested in outliers, the points of interest. Part of it comes… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“For introverts who have a high level of internal activity, anything coming from the outside raises their intensity level index quickly. It’s… — Marti Olsen Laney Copy Share Image
“If you are uncomfortable meeting people on your own, the perfect way to do it is to volunteer to help greet those… — Beth Ramsay Copy Share Image
“Extroverts typically . . . • Process information externally by verbalizing, collaborating, brainstorming, discussing, sharing their ideas, and communicating until they achieve… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Introverts often work more slowly and deliberately. They like to focus on one task at a time and can have mighty powers… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
