“Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Shy people are my favorites. The unmistakable glint of shyness in someone's eyes can mesmerize me for years!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“People like you don’t go mad, Vi. They’re quiet on the outside and loud on the inside and sane as the day… — April Genevieve Tucholke Copy Share Image
It's a stupid feeling when you ask a simple question and yet your heart is damn too scared to know the answer.. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My first language was shy. Its only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of. — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
I have this demon who wants me to run away screaming if I am going to be flawed, fallible. It wants me… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The first few glasses of beer were a revelation; they flushed my veins with happiness; they washed away all cares and shyness… — George Mackay Brown Copy Share Image
“Walk to her. Take her hand. But his feet were leaden, and Dorian could do nothing except watch her. His skin flushed… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“No longer did she look like a shy little maid who was trained to censor her thought before it reached her mouth.… — Kien Nguyen Copy Share Image
“She knows that she needs new friends but introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness.” — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Shyness means you are in the hallway of a greater presence. You just don't know how to take the conversation another step.… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
Divorce is hard enough when you're an adult - never mind when you're a child. That was probably when my shyness started,… — DanTDM Copy Share Image
As a boy,I was extremely shy, certainly as a result of my upbringing. I was an expert blusher,and some of my harsh… — Gunter Brus Copy Share Image
Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree. — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
I may be shy as heck, but that doesn't mean I don't have a world of things to say about everything. — Amber Hope Copy Share Image
I am not that expressive but I really do care and I just pretend everything is fine. Maybe someday, someone will see… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why do people feel comfortable texting you things they would never have the guts to say to your face? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The love of books was an instant connection, and a true boon for a girl who tended toward shyness, because it was… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“His pleasure at seeing me was so genuine, so unmistakable, that even I, with my inbred suspicions, lost all fear.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That awkward moment when you accidentally make eye contact with your crush and you have no choice but to say nothing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Typing a huge paragraph with your true feelings, but then erasing it and typing 'yeah...' — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. — Anonymous 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
And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
My mom helped me. I was very shy growing up, but my shyness sort of manifested in a big personality. — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When Im alone I think of EVERYTHING I want to say to you. When Im with you, I go speechless... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes the people you think don't want to talk to you, are the ones waiting for you to talk to them. — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
“Whereas before I had been an open, outgoing, and inquisitive child, suddenly, I was quiet—almost shy.” — Lin Wilder Copy Share Image
“Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating.” — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
