Life Shyness Quotes

#1. Shyness, inexhaustible source of misfortunes in practical life, is the direct cause, indeed unique, each inner wealth.

Emil Cioran

#2. Here's the point: idolatry is the tree from which our sins and struggles grow.

Kyle Idleman

#3. I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.

Steve Martin

#4. All my life, people have taken my shyness for sullenness, snobbery, bad temper of one sort or another.

Donna Tartt

#5. The first few glasses of beer were a revelation; they flushed my veins with happiness; they washed away all cares and shyness and worries. I remember thinking to myself, If I could have two pints of beer every afternoon, life would be a great happiness.

George Mackay Brown

#6. I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.

Loudon Wainwright III

#7. Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.

Steven Morrissey

#8. Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

Ernst Mayr

#9. There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses.

Dorothy Parker

#10. When you're shy, a camera becomes an entry into life. It was a kind of shield I could hide my shyness behind, and it allowed me to become an active observer rather than a passive one.

Lynn Johnston

#11. His silhouette blocked the starlight. She turned her head and a sticky kiss landed below her ear. She tried to relax, but her arms wouldn't move from their defensive position on his shirtfront. His next kiss grazed her cheek. "Jesse." "You remembered my name.

Catherine Richmond

#12. If you want to do something big in your life, you must remember that shyness is only the mind,

Arfa Karim

#13. All my life, books have felt alive; some more so than people, or rather, some people. Alive - this has to do with me, I know, and not the books - in a way that some people aren't. Alive as teachers, alive as minds, alive as imaginative triggers.

Andrea Barrett

#14. I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.

Aberjhani

#15. I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back.

Paloma Faith

#16. Look at the shiny magic thing trying to kill us, isn't it awesome?

Jim C. Hines

#17. Renting a tuxedo seemed to me an excellent way to contract some hideous disease from its previous tenant,

John Green

#18. To find the Tao, there is nowhere you need to search. If it is not inside you, it is not the Tao.

Confucius

#19. We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.

Albert Einstein

#20. Poverty said the same thing, century after century, but in different kinds of sentences.

Martin Amis

#21. Shy people are my favorites. The unmistakable glint of shyness in someone's eyes can mesmerize me for years!

Avijeet Das

#22. It was a relief to inhabit someone else's life for a while, to get her personal issues for a brief respite. In a play, she knew exactly how all her character's problems would be resolved. No matter how the cast performed, the end turned out the same. No questions, no worries, no unknowns.

Alexandra Robbins

#23. I have made plenty of mistakes. The key to life is to learn from them. I have been a little too introspective, but I think that stemmed from insecurity or shyness. I took a long time to grow up.

Richard Gere

#24. For me, I had to overcome shyness to be an actor. But as a director, you lose your subjectivity, your self-consciousness. And instead of just your role, it's the life of the whole play that becomes a reflection of you.

Gene Saks

#25. Don't feel shy - kiss. Kiss just to feel the joy of life and to get lost in the beauty of love.

Debasish Mridha

#26. ONCE HE KNEW HOW to do things in Washington, he started doing them - with the same frenzied, driven, almost desperate energy he had displayed in Cotulla and Houston, the energy of a man fleeing from something dreadful.

Robert A. Caro

#27. Deep rivers run quiet.

Haruki Murakami

#28. I am the sun who will bring delight when you are in-front of me. I am the moon who will show shyness when you are away from me.

Santosh Kalwar

#29. A Coy Aversion

...a flutter
too shy
to be seen...

Muse