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Introvert Quotes

Last updated: May 13, 2020

42 Introvert Quotes organized by Most Popular

“She was always an introvert, but at her core there had been something vital and alive, something that even she wasn’t totally aware of. That light, that radiance used to leak out by itself, emerging from between the cracks.”
— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Tagged: Introvert, hidden feelings
“When you’re an introvert like me and you’ve been lonely for a while, and then you find someone who understands you, you become really attached to them. It’s a real release.”
— Lana Del Rey, Interview: Lana Del Rey Talks Backlash, Plastic Surgery, and New Album
Tagged: Personality, Introvert, Attachment, Relationships
“I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.”
— Susan Cain, The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance
Tagged: Introvert, Introversion, Inner Life, Own World, Alone, intrapersonal, Inspirational
“I’ve always known that there’s more going on inside me than finds its way into the world, but this is probably true of everyone. Who doesn’t regret that he isn’t more fully understood?”
— Richard Russo, Bridge of Sighs
Tagged: Misunderstood, Unsaid Things, Real Self, Introvert
“As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your worst enemy. The good news is we generally like our own company, a quality that extroverts often envy. We find comfort in solitude and know how to soothe ourselves. Even our willingness to look at ourselves critically is often helpful. But, we can go too far. We can hoard responsibility and overlook the role others play. We can kick ourselves when we’re down. How many times have you felt lousy about something, only to get mad at yourself for feeling lousy?”
— Laurie Helgoe, Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength
Tagged: Introvert, Advantages, Solitude, Alone, Power, Strengths
“My life is entirely too internal.”
— Tennessee Williams, Notebooks
Tagged: Life, Internal, Silence, Introvert, Reflection
“People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are unable to hear the voice of my silence.”
— Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan
Tagged: Silence, Introvert, Sadness
“Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you're told that you're "in your head too much", a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral.

Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.”
— Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Tagged: Introvert
“You might be an introvert if you were ready to go home before you left the house.”
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Tagged: Introvert Quotes, Introvert, Introverts, party
“Being an introvert doesn’t mean you’re shy. It means you enjoy being alone. Not just enjoy it— you need it. If you’re a true introvert, other people are basically energy vampires. You don’t hate them; you just have to be strategic about when you expose yourself to them— like the sun.”
— Amy Schumer, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
Tagged: Introvert, Being An Introvert, Power of Introverts
“We find people intriguing, but insanely exhausting. We like adventures, but love peace and quiet. We want to go out, but need to mentally prepare ourselves.”
— Victoria Joslin, 9 Things You Need To Know Before Dating An Outgoing Introvert
Tagged: outgoing, Introvert, H4D-5
“I’m very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.”
— Johnny Cash, An Interview with the Man In Black
Tagged: Solitude, Introvert, shyness, writer
“I’m very shy and I’m always embarrassed when people are interested in what I do. I’m not an exhibitionist.”
— Lana Del Rey, Lana Del Rey on Depression/ Anxiety
Tagged: Shy, embarrassed, Introvert
“You can’t always be pushing people away. Someday nobody’ll come back.”
— Jacqueline Woodson, The Dear One
Tagged: Pushing Away, Loner, Introvert
“There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.”
— Bjork, Björk
Tagged: Introvert
“I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I’m afraid I’ll stutter.”
— Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
Tagged: Introvert, Lying in bed, Wasting Time, Solitude, Silence
“I don’t know, I don’t want to talk as much…It’s nicer to think, dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one’s heart, like treasures. I don’t like to have them laughed at or wondered over.”
— L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
Tagged: Positive Thinking, Silence, Introvert
“The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person's solitude.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Tagged: Introvert
“I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world, over time, little by little. And when I’m inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved.”
— Haruki Murakami, After Dark
Tagged: Introvert
“Deep in my heart I know I am a loner. I have tried to blend in with the world and be sociable, but the more people I meet the more disappointed I am. So, I’ve learned to enjoy myself, my family, and a few good friends.”
— Steven Aitchison, A Quote by Steven Aitchison
Tagged: Loner, Outcast, Alone, Solitude, shyness, Introvert
“I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.”
— Charles Bukowski, Factotum
Tagged: Solitude, Introvert
“I’m too quiet. But I’m really not quiet. I just tend to come across that way to new people because I don’t like to talk first.”
— Lauren Barnholdt, Two-way Street
Tagged: shyness, small talk, Introvert
“I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems
Tagged: Introvert, Silence, Alone, Solitude
“Silence was the key to self-preservation.”
— Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl
Tagged: Silence, Introvert, reserved
“I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.”
— Gwendolyn Brooks, Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks(Literary Conversations)
Tagged: writer, Silence, Quiet, Introvert
“The introvert's anthem for not wanting to hang out is 'It's not you; it's me.”
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Tagged: Introvert Quotes, Introvert, Introverts
“One of the risks of being quiet is that the other people can fill your silence with their own interpretation: You’re bored. You’re depressed. You’re shy. You’re stuck up. You’re judgmental. When others can’t read us, they write their own story—not always one we choose or that’s true to who we are.”
— Sophia Dembling, The Introvert's Way: Living a Quiet Life in a Noisy World (Perigee Book)
Tagged: Introvert, Quiet, Silence, First Impressions, Social Anxiety, Growing Up Shy
“I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.”
— Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out
Tagged: Introvert
“Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren’t a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Tagged: Alone, Introvert, State Of Being
“I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.”
— Laurie Helgoe, Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength
Tagged: Introvert, Alone, I Hate People
“I was quiet, but I was not blind.”
— Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Tagged: Quiet People, Silent, reticent, Introvert, Personality
“Silence is always beautiful, and a silent person is always more beautiful than one who talks.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Adolescent(Vintage Classics)
Tagged: Peaceful, Silence, Introvert
“I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.”
— Charles Bukowski, The Last Night Of The Earth Poems
Tagged: Bibliophile, Introvert, shyness, book, Reading
“Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured...Spend your free the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.”
— Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Tagged: Introvert Quotes, Introvert, Introverts
“I am an introvert. And to my fellow shut-ins please hear me when I say this... Don’t let your desire to be alone hinder your growth as a person. Social situations are a constant struggle for me but I wouldn’t be where I am today if I didn’t push out of my comfort zone.”
— Mark Fischbach, If You Are An Introvert, You Need To Read This
Tagged: Introvert, Comfort Zone
“Introvert problems: I'm going out. 5 minutes later: I want to go back in.”
— Nikita Gill
Tagged: Introverts, Introverted, H4D-48, Introvert
“I'm good with words, but not the spoken kind; I've often thought what a marvelous thing it would be if I could only conduct relationships on paper.”
— Kate Morton, The Distant Hours: A Novel
Tagged: written words, Words, writer, Writing, Literature, Introvert
“Yeah, as soon as I walk into a party, I just want to leave. I just want to go home. I think as I get older, I’ve just gotten more anxiety around other people. I don’t know, I just feel less interested in a lot of people’s energy.”
— Amy Poehler, Howard Stern Comes Again
Tagged: Introvert, party
“Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense. Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.”
— Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
Tagged: Introvert
“When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability with nobody. But all of this vanishes when I face someone in the flesh: I lose my intelligence, I can no longer speak, and after half an hour I just feel tired. Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping.”
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Introvert
“I love introverts. They don't waste words.”
— Alexei Maxim Russell, Trueman Bradley: The Next Great Detective (Volume 2)
Tagged: Introverts, Introvert Quotes, Introvert, Words
“Realize that being an introvert is not a bad thing. You are a dreamer, an adventurer, and an enlightenment seeker.”
— A. Davis
Tagged: Introvert, Dreamer, H4D-15