Introverts Quotes

“Carl Jung said that only an introvert could see "the unfathomable stupidity of man”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

“Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“If personal space is vital to creativity, so is freedom from "peer pressure".”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“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

“I love introverts. They don't waste words. Excessive extroverts can be very wasteful. I don't trust them in any kind of intricate or delicate matter.”
― Alexei Maxim Russell, Trueman Bradley - The Next Great Detective

“The trick for introverts is to honor their styles instead of allowing themselves to be swept up by prevailing norms.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Extroverts sparkle, introverts glow. Extroverts are fireworks, introverts are a fire in the hearth.”
― Sophia Dembling, Introverts in Love: The Quiet Way to Happily Ever After

“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

“It's not that introverts aren't good team players. We just don't need to be in the same room as the rest of the team at all times. We would much prefer to have part of the project carved out for us to squirrel away with it in our offices, consulting as necessary but working independently.”
― Sophia Dembling, The Introvert's Way: Living a Quiet Life in a Noisy 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

“Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“All my life, all I'd ever heard was: Emily's so shy, Emily's so quiet, Emily's so clever. Thinking back on it now, I don't know if I was ever any of those things, or if I just became shy and quiet and clever because everyone said I was.”
― Tanya Byrne, Heart-Shaped Bruise

“Woe to him who offends a patient man who has just reached his limit.”
― Joyce Rachelle

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

“His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired and restless ...”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“...my wants are few, and at any rate I had peace and quietness and wasn't always being asked to come along and do something. And I've got such an active mind - always occupied, I assure you!”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Reluctant Dragon

“It was words and reading that had made me quiet, and being quiet had made me a mark.”
― Charles Blow, Fire Shut Up in My Bones

“[P]arents need to step back from their own preferences and see what the world looks like to their quiet children.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“People (new people, strangers) made Georgia nervous. And nervous Georgie was much more extroverted than regular Georgie. Nervous Georgie was practically manic.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“People who are drawn to journalism are usually people who, because of their cynicism or emotional detachment or reserve or whatever, are incapable of being anything but witnesses to events. Something prevents them from becoming involved, committed, and allows them to remain separate.”
― Nora Ephron

“Introverts are dependent on their own inside noise, extroverts are dependent of outside noise. The outputs are dependent on quality of those noise.”
― Amit K Ghosh

“If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“The rest were nondescript, as yet undifferentiated—yet nondescripts, thought Harriet, were the most difficult of all human beings to analyze. You scarcely knew they were there, until—bang! Something quite unexpected blew up like a depth charge and left you marveling, to collect strange floating debris.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

“Anyone who writes books is at least mostly an introvert. It’s amazing to be able to share that internalized part of myself, that little world that no one really knows about. I just wrote down it down on a piece of paper just to be crazy, and people loving that is so strange.”
― Pierce Brown

“The acquisition of culture requires repose, sitting quietly in a room with a book, or alone with one's thoughts even any crowded concert or art museum.”
― Joseph Epstein

“Introverts think about more than just being introverts.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes

“I don't talk ill about people I don't know," said Bartleby. "I only disparage them in silence and hope they die.”
― Michelle Franklin

“Since when is solitude one of the Seven Deadly Sins? But to a fellow evangelical, McHugh's sense of spiritual failure would make perfect sense. Contemporary evangelicalism says that every person you fail to meet and proselytize is another soul you might have saved. It also emphasizes building community among confirmed believers, with many churches encouraging (or even requiring) their members to join extracurricular groups organized around every conceivable subject—cooking, real-estate investing, skateboarding. So every social event McHugh left early, every morning he spent alone, every group he failed to join, meant wasted chances to connect with others.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“It needs strength to stay silent, but it needs courage to confide in somebody.”
― Namrata Kumari

“As for him, he was naturally somewhat dashed by the consciousness of duty unfulfilled, but more so by the prospect of a lawn-tennis party, which, though an inevitable evil in August, he had thought there was no occasion to fear in May.”
― Montague Rhodes James, A Thin Ghost and Others