Browsing Topic Best Introvert Quotes

The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.

All sorrow has its root in man’s inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!

The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.

I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.

Most people in politics draw energy from backslapping and shaking hands and all that. I draw energy from discussing ideas.

as a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house on a saturday.

Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.

Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.

I lead an introverted and boring life here in California.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

People empty me. I have to get away to refill.

I would say that introverts make some of the best international philosophers. The less common attribute of the introverted lifestyle – a close societal connection, as such a connection disappears or changes in relevance as the currents of the winds change – leaves too much room for one’s own cultural bias. Instead, introverts tend to turn inward, the laboratory of being and all its forms. This is the most accurate study of the individual human being, which is in turn, rather than those affected by cultural limitations, the most universal reflection of human understanding and human behavior.

When I first read the words ‘introvert’ and ‘extrovert’ when I was 10, I thought I was both.

In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.

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 the point?

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed – and so is their music.

Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.

Do you hate people? I don’t hate them…I just feel better when they’re not around.

I think Hamlet, as much as he loves his privacy and is kind of an introvert, he’s a very functional introvert. When he has to be out, he can be out with people.

The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish delights that the egoist locked up in himself as in a box, and the slothful man like a mollusk in his shell, will be eternally deprived of. He adopts as his own all the occupations, all the joys and all the sorrows that chance offers.

When you’re socially awkward, you’re isolated more than usual, and when you’re isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.

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.

Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.

The exaggerated dopamine sensitivity of the introvert leads one to believe that when in public, introverts, regardless of its validity, often feel to be the center of (unwanted) attention hence rarely craving attention. Extroverts, on the other hand, seem to never get enough attention. So on the flip side it seems as though the introvert is in a sense very external and the extrovert is in a sense very internal – the introvert constantly feels too much ‘outerness’ while the extrovert doesn’t feel enough ‘outerness’.

It was a very easy way to have a group of friends on a very large campus – a sense of identity. It was a great place to learn how to navigate a variety of personalities, which you kind of have to do in life. You’ve got the shy woman and you’ve got the obnoxious woman and you’ve got the brainiac and you’ve got the social climber and you’ve got the introvert and the extrovert, and you’re all living together. I think it gave me valuable experience in learning how to live with people that are different than you are. And that’s an important lesson. You can bet it comes in very handy in the Senate.

There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

It’s not like I’m an introvert. You get to know me, I can have a conversation with you. But in front of the media, I’m probably more of a quiet guy.

Art starts alone – and convinces society later.

Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.