“Extroverts sparkle, introverts glow. Extroverts are fireworks, introverts are a fire in the hearth.” —Sophia Dembling
The trick for introverts is to honor their styles instead of allowing themselves to be swept up by prevailing norms.” —Susan Cain"
"The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers." —Deepak Chopra
“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. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial.” —Fernando Pessoa
“You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.” —Stephen Chbosky
“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
“They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are.” —Paulo Coelho
“I think a lot, but I don't say much.” —Anne Frank
“Don't underestimate me because I'm quiet. I know more than I say, think more than I speak and observe more than you know.” —Michaela Chung
“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
"I'm a little unusual. I'm a six-person-or-less extrovert." —Reid Hoffman
“I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.” —Laurie A. Helgoe
"Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to." —Susan Cain
“Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.” —Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“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." —Audrey Hepburn
“Introverts treasure the close relationships they have stretched so much to make.” —Adam S. McHugh
"You might be an introvert if you were ready to go home before you left the house." —Criss Jami“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
“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
"Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.” —Ariel Gore
"I'm a real extrovert, but when I'm around someone new, I'm super shy."
—Serena Williams
“It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain.” —Criss Jami
"To some extent, we've always had an admiration for extroversion in our culture. But the extrovert ideal really came to play at the turn of the 20th century when we had the rise of big business." —Susan Cain
“Introverts think carefully before they speak. We can be excellent public speakers because we prepare carefully.” —Sophia Dembling
“When introverts are in conflict with each other, it may require a map in order to follow all the silences, nonverbal cues and passive-aggressive behaviors!” —Adam S. McHugh
"The idea is to participate in your existence. —Buddy Wakefield
“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."
—Laurie A. Helgoe
“I'm very picky with who I give my energy to. I prefer to reserve my time, intensity and spirit exclusively to those who reflect sincerity.” —Dau Voire
