Introvert Quotes

• I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Love, Dog, Flower

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  You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  "The Zürau Aphorisms". Book by Franz Kafka, 1931.

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• The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Solitude, Form

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• I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Education, Knowledge, Knowing Who You Are

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

  Charles Bukowski

  People, Empty, Refills

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “The Captain is Out to Lunch”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. They tend to dislike conflict. Many have a horror of small talk, but enjoy deep discussions.

  Susan Cain

  Strong, Party, Home

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

  Charles Bukowski

  Hate, Feel Better, People

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• Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Business

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• Better to keep quiet and let people think you're an idiot than speak up and confirm it.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Thinking, People, Idiot

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  Quiet people have the loudest minds.

  Stephen Hawking

  Quiet People, Fearless, Mind

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• Introversion- along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness- is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living in the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are. Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.

  Susan Cain

  Cousin, Disappointment, Class

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.12, Penguin UK

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• 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. We find comfort in solitude and know how to soothe ourselves.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Worst Enemy, Envy, Solitude

  Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.194, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge.

  Paulo Coelho

  Blessed, Judging, Solitude

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• I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Bored, Groups, Crowds

  Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.37, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• The only thing a true introvert dislikes more than talking about himself is repeating himself.

  Jonathan Rauch

  Talking, Dislike

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• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

  Liv Tyler

  Beauty, Solitude, Strange

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• The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

  Aldous Huxley

  Lonely, Powerful, Loneliness

  Aldous Huxley (1957). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Wise men speak because they have something to say

  Plato

  Wise, Communication, Men

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• My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Quiet People, Communication, Imagination

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• I restore myself when I'm alone.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Ms. Magazine (p. 40), August 1972.

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• Introverts paradoxically pull away from culture and create culture.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Culture

  Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.236, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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

  Albert Camus

  Order, Solitude, World

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.157, Vintage

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• Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

  William S. Burroughs

  Communication, People, Silence

  William S. Burroughs (1989). “The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs”, Penguin Group USA

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• For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating.

  Jonathan Rauch

  Sleep, Extroverts, Eating

  "Caring for Your Introvert" by Jonathan Rauch, www.theatlantic.com. March 2003.

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