Introversion Quotes

“Introverts don’t see life as one big cocktail party. We’re content with just a few meaningful relationships.”
― Jenn Granneman, The Secret Lives of Introverts: Inside Our Hidden World

“Introverts tend to avoid small talk. We'd rather talk about something meaningful than fill the air with chatter just to hear ourselves make noise.”
― Jenn Granneman, The Secret Lives of Introverts: Inside Our Hidden World

“But the most important thing to know about being an introvert is that there’s nothing wrong with you. You’re not broken because you’re quiet. It’s okay to stay home on a Friday night instead of going to a party. Being an introvert is a perfectly normal 'thing' to be.”
― Jenn Granneman, The Secret Lives of Introverts: Inside Our Hidden World

“We have created youth ministry that confuses extroversion with faithfulness. We have effectively communicated to young people that sincerely following Jesus is synonymous with being 'fired up' for Jesus, with being excited for Jesus, as if discipleship were synonymous with fostering an exuberant, perky, cheerful, hurray-for-Jesus disposition like what we might find in the glee club or at a pep rally.”
― James K.A. Smith, You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit

“My life had got on the wrong track, and my contact with men had become now a mere soliloquy. I had fallen so low that, if I had had to choose between falling in love with a woman and reading a book about love, I should have chosen the book.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“When I realized that I was an introvert and what that meant, I actually became more outgoing, more confident in social situations, and began to enjoy scenarios I used to find unbearable. Why? Because, in understanding what I needed with respect to replenishing my energy, I was able to set limits and boundaries that freed me to be more engaged.”
― Jamie Arpin-Ricci, The Introvert Writer: Being Your Creative Best By Being Your Truest Self

“Beware of those who don't fight back. Sooner or later, they will.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“The healthy introvert understands that their personality is not a deterministic, fixed reality that they are powerless against. Being an introvert is never an excuse to shirk responsibility or to justify bad habits.”
― Jamie Arpin-Ricci, The Introvert Writer: Being Your Creative Best By Being Your Truest Self

“There is something quite wonderful about sharing a secret.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“When in doubt, stay silent. People can't tell if you're plotting a nuclear war or just bored.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“Complaints of feeling cut off, shut off, out of touch, feeling apart or strange, of things being out of focus or unreal, of not feeling one with people, or of the point having gone out of life, interest flagging, things seeming futile and meaningless, all describe in various ways this state of mind. Patients usually call it 'depression', but it lacks the heavy, black, inner sense of brooding, of anger and of guilt, which are not difficult to discover in classic depression. Depression is really a more extraverted state of mind, which, while the patient is turning his aggression inwards against himself, is part of a struggle not to break out into overt angry and aggressive behaviour. The states described above are rather the 'schizoid states'. They are definitely introverted. Depression is object-relational. The schizoid person has renounced objects, even though he still needs them.”
― Harry Guntrip, Schizoid Phenomena, Object Relations and the Self

“Yet today we make room for a remarkably narrow range of personality styles. We’re told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“The life of the party is actually an introverted recluse. She knows the difference between being alone and being lonely. The latter is a feeling she has yet to experience. If she invites you into her world, she plans on keeping you.”
― Kristin Michelle Elizabeth

“It may happen, however, that he falls into despair just for the fact that he has opened his heart to another; it may be that he thinks
it would have been infinitely preferable to maintain silence rather than have anyone privy to his secret. There are examples of introverts who are brought to despair precisely because they have acquired a confidant.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

“...because contemporary culture idealizes extroverted traits, we introverts—especially those of us who fall on the far introverted end of the spectrum—may feel that there’s something wrong with us. Some may not even understand or like themselves and may deny their natural preferences. We introverts need to understand, accept, and appreciate ourselves and how we are naturally wired.”
― Aaron Caycedo-Kimura, Text, Don't Call: An Illustrated Guide to the Introverted Life

“That Seigo could go into geisha houses, accept luncheon invitations, drop in at the Club, see people off at Shimabashi, meet them at Yokohama, run out to Oiso to humor the elders—that he could put in his appearance at large gatherings from morning to evening without seeming either triumphant or dejected—this must be because he was thoroughly accustomed to this kind of life, thought Daisuke; it was probably like the jellyfish's floating in the sea and not finding it salty.”
― Natsume Sōseki, And Then

“Shy people operate as if they have a mirror in front of them all the time.”
― Bernado Carducci

“Many shy people turn inward, partly as a refuge from the socializing that causes them such anxiety. And many introverts are shy, partly as a result of receiving the message that there’s something wrong with their preference for reflection, and partly because their physiologies, as we’ll see, compel them to withdraw from high-stimulation environments.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“I can pass for normal most of the time, but I understand perfectly why some of my autistic patients scream and flap their arms -- it's to frighten off extroverts.”
― Mark Vonnegut, Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So

“Solve problems, make art, think deeply.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“People expected certain things of me: assistance, silence, comfort. They had no idea who I was.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Ice Queen

“Often, we find ourselves wedged in the middle of a draining conversation. We might desperately want to dislodge ourselves from the interaction, but instead we stay in receiving mode, absorbing their words like a slow-acting poison.”
― Michaela Chung, The Irresistible Introvert: Harness the Power of Quiet Charisma in a Loud World

“Events like this don't give me the sense of oneness others seem to enjoy; it's always been private occasions that make me feel connected to the joys and sorrows of the world, often in the form of communion with writers and musicians I'll never meet in person. Proust called these moments of unity between writer and reader 'that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“If there is only one insight you take away from this book, though, I hope it’s a newfound sense of entitlement to be yourself. I can vouch personally for the life-transforming effects of this outlook. Remember that first client I told you about, the one I called Laura in order to protect her identity? That was a story about me. I was my own first client.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Odd how six people could be a crowd when she lived daily among millions.”
― Isabel Cooper, The Highland Dragon's Lady

“I kept myself to myself in the early years. I walked around and around the playground pretending to scale great mountain ranges or horizontal marshlands. In the summer months I sat beneath a sycamore tree on the edge of the school field. I collected insects in my hands only to release them at the end of playtime or lunch hour. Daddy asked me if I wanted an insect collecting set for my birthday or some jars to put them in to and take them home but I said I did not. I liked having them in my hands for that certain amount of time then letting them go off again into the undergrowth, back to their homes and to their lives. I would think about them living those lives while I sat back in my chair in the classroom and gazed blankly at times-tables.”
― Fiona Mozley, Elmet

“We don't need to be in a designated role to take ownership of our environment. We can simply decide that we will be the giver, the helper, or the greeter wherever we are. We can even make a little game of it. We can tell ourselves: Today, I'm going to make at least three new people feel welcome. Or we can say: At this party, I'm going to gift two people a genuine compliment.”
― Michaela Chung, The Irresistible Introvert: Harness the Power of Quiet Charisma in a Loud World

“Where is privacy, if not in the mind?”
― Annie Dillard, The Maytrees

“I'd rather cut off my own balls with blunt bacon scissors than host a dinner party.”
― Derren Brown, Happy: Why more or less everything is absolutely fine

“رجلٌ أدار مفتاح قلبه ثلاث مرات، حرصاً على اغلاقه جيداً
يلاحق امرأة متسكعة على أرصفة الشهوات، تاركاً كلّ النوافذ مشرّعة”
― Malak El Halabi