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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: affable, alone, amicable, anchoress, anchorite, anthropocentric, anthropocentrism, antisocial, approachable, ascetic, by-oneself, chummy, cloistered, clubby, communicative, companionable, companionless, convivial, cordial, eremite, extrovert, forthcoming, friendless, friendly, genial, gregarious, hail-fellow-well-met, hermit, hermitic, incommunicado, introvert, isolate, isolation, lone-wolf, lonely, loner, lonesome, marabout, misanthrope, misanthropy, on-one-s-own, open, outgoing, recluse, reclusive, responsive, seclude, secluded, sociable, solitarian, solitary, solitudinarian, troglodyte, unaccompanied, unsociable, warm, withdrawn
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: aggravating, annoy, annoying, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, aplomb, assertive, assertiveness, assured, at-ease, bashful, bashfulness, boldness, bothersome, can-do, confident, coolheaded, courage, coyness, cursed, demureness, diffidence, diffident, embarrassed, embarrassment, exasperating, extrovert, extroverted, farouche, funny, galling, girl, girls, hilarious, humor, humorous, humour, imperturbable, infuriating, inhibited, insecure, introversion, introvert, introverted, irksome, irritate, irritating, irritation, joke, jokes, lack-of-confidence, levelheaded, maddening, man, men, mettle, mousiness, mousy, nerve, nervous, nettlesome, obnoxious, pesky, phlegm, phlegmatic, poise, poised, positive, quotations, quotes, repressed, reserve, reserved, reservedness, reticence, reticent, retiring, satire, self-assurance, self-assured, self-confidence, self-confident, self-conscious, self-consciousness, self-effacing, self-possessed, self-possession, self-reliant, sheepish, sheepishness, shy, shyness, timid, timidity, timidness, timorous, timorousness, tiresome, together, troublesome, trying, unconfident, unperturbed, unruffled, vexatious, vexing, withdrawn
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Christiane Sanderson
“The human need to be visible is countered by the need to be invisible to avoid further abuse, and the need for intimacy and the dread of abuse, all pose insoluble dichotomies which promote further withdrawal from human contact, which reinforces the sense of dehumanisation.”
― Christiane Sanderson, Introduction to Counselling Survivors of Interpersonal Trauma
tags: abuse-survivors, child-abuse-survivors, cognitive-dissonance, complex-ptsd, dehumanisation, dehumanization, dehumanize, dehumanized, domestic-abuse, domestic-violence, ptsd, survivors-of-abuse, traumatized, withdrawn
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Itohan Eghide
“There is no need searching for love, it cannot be found-it happens!”
― Itohan Eghide, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
tags: calm-down, careless, chances, each-other, found, friendship, happen, i-love-you, love, love-happens, love-within, loving-someone, meeting, patience, profound, relationships, retreat, soft, somewhere, soulmate, spontaneity, spontaneous, struggle, together, true-love, withdrawn
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Michael Bassey Johnson
“I don't purchase people with money, or hiss like a snake to attract their attention, all i do is to rest on my couch because i have the conviction that no human can progress with an exception without a power behind.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson
tags: attraction, aura, beg, beggar, beggars, belief, believe-in-yourself, breakthrough, condescend, condescending, condescension, content, contented, conviction, equanimity, excel, fame, hiss, honor, honour, humility, individuality, meek, michael-bassey-johnson, money, much-ado-about-nothing, mystic, popularity, power-behind, pride, progress, reserved, self-reliance, self-respect, snake, unpopularity, withdrawal, withdrawn
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: alcohol, alcohol-abuse, alcohol-addiction, alcoholic, alcoholics-anonymous, alcoholism, bashful, diffident, embarrassed, escape, evade, farouche, inhibited, insecure, introverted, mousy, nervous, opium, opium-of-the-people, pain, problem, problems, repressed, reserved, reticent, retiring, self-consciousness, self-effacing, sheepish, shy, shyness, suffering, timid, timorous, unconfident, vehicle, vehicles, withdrawn
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Doug Cooper
“I am two people. One goes through the motions, rolling from one thing to the next; the other is withdrawn, watching a complete stranger.”
― Doug Cooper, Outside In
tags: duality, going-through-the-motions, identity, outside-in, stranger, withdrawn
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Stephen W. Porges
“To switch effectively from defense to social engagement strategies, the nervous system must do two things: (1) assess risk, and (2) if the environment looks safe, inhibit the primitive defensive reactions to fight, flight or freeze.”
― Stephen W. Porges, The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation
tags: dangerous-people, defensive, defensiveness, distrust, fear-rape, fight-flight-freeze, image-people, interpersonal-problems, interpersonal-relationships, mistrust, nervous-system, neutral-circuits, polyvagal-theory, social-engagement, trust-issues, withdrawn
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Tyler Hamilton
“Slowly, inch by inch, I felt myself recovering. After a few weeks, the darkness began to recede; my appetite for life returned. Haven was wonderful; she understood and nursed me through these weeks until I felt strong enough to go out in public, to get on my bike again.”
― Tyler Hamilton, The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs
tags: depression, depression-quotes, depression-recovery, mental-illness, recovery, withdrawn
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Anthony Liccione
“I know an alcoholic is the worse, but sometimes I wonder if it's better to have a drinking father that lives at home, or a drinking father, that never comes around.”
― Anthony Liccione
tags: absence, absorbed, acceptance, addiction, alcoholic, beer, dead-beat, distracted, drinking, family, father, fatherly-figure, gone, inattentive, not-paying-attention, pain, preoccupied, rejection, role-model, substance-abuse, unknown, vague, withdrawn, worse
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D.H. Lawrence
“He felt that if he could not be alone, and if he could not be left alone, he would die.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
tags: alone, d-h-lawrence, lady-chatterley-s-lover, recluse, solitary, solitude, withdrawn
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Dorothea Lasky
“I wrapped myself in leaden sheets
And sank deep into my own infernal ocean”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems
tags: dorothea-lasky, interior, poetry, rome, self-destruction, withdrawn
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“Society is a thing to be Conquered or withdrawn from.”
― Pietros Maneos
tags: conquest, independence, individual, individualism, individuality, society, withdraw, withdrawal, withdrawn
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
“I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they are designed to lock the world out. And the oddity is that either way, I am a prisoner who has sentenced himself to a prison within which I do not belong.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
tags: fear, fearful, hiding, imprisonment, incarcerate, incarceration, isolate, isolation, lock, panic, prison, protect, protection, recluse, retreat, seclude, shelter, withdraw, withdrawn, world
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E.M. Forster
“At such moments the soul retires within, to float upon the bosom of a deeper stream, and has communion with the dead, and sees the world's glory not diminished, but different in kind to what she has supposed.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End
tags: e-m-forster, howards-end, inner-life, metaphor, soul, withdrawn
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“She fails to see who I am, even, for her eyes do not, will not, take me in. Instead they transmit a powerful message. She is like a billboard flashing, starkly: 'Keep Out'.”
― Carol Lee, To Die For
tags: emotional-disengagement, emotional-distance, ignoring-people, isolation, mental-disorder, mental-illness, withdrawn
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Jhumpa Lahiri
“She'd convinced herself that Subhash was her rival, and that she was in competition for him for Bela, a competition that felt insulting, unjust. But of course it had not been a competition, it had been her own squandering. Her own withdrawal, covert, ineluctable. With her own hand she'd painted herself into a corner, and then out of the picture altogether”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland
tags: marriage, self-sabotage, withdrawn
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“With the delicacy of a flower,
love tames the most withdrawn hearts.
With time, you learn to value those who look for you, who make themselves present.”
― Augusto Branco
tags: delicacy, learn, look, love, make, present, withdrawn
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Michael Bassey Johnson
“Being nervous. Having anxiety. Stuttering. Autism. When you have any of those, at some point, you're forced to spend most of your time alone.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia
tags: antisocial, awkwardness, dysfunction, nervous, nervousness, recluse, social-anxiety-disorder, solitary, stuttering, withdrawn
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