Top 100 Quotes About Awkwardness
#1. How about I kiss you so we can get past this awkwardness?
Stephanie Bond
#2. Embarrassing ourselves in front of strangers is literally one of the worst things that can happen to us. It's in the slot where polio used to be. Awkwardness, rejection, missing out. We've conquered everything else and these constants of human life are all that remain to bedevil us.
Alexandra Petri
#3. Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of its awkwardness it obstructs that inner element ...
Kazimir Malevich
#5. Sometimes the current even starts to flow in the other direction: sometimes, particularly in university math and science departments, nerds deliberately exaggerate their awkwardness in order to seem smarter.
Paul Graham
#6. Goodreads sports some of the social awkwardness of middle school. If you are looking for a friend, I promise no matter your background or book preferences I will be your friend.
Red Phoenix
#7. The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
Charles Caleb Colton
#8. I love how I can see [on Twitter] some of the thoughts and ideas of my favorite cultural figures and still also chatter with my friends and family. It's a cocktail party with a fraction of the awkwardness of an actual cocktail party.
Roxane Gay
#9. There's such an awkwardness to most heterosexual male relationships. You see women who are friends, and they kiss each other good-bye, and they're just so much warmer with each other. But there's this thing with guys where, even between best friends, there's a standoffishness.
Todd Phillips
#10. Dating is great unless you don't like horrible awkwardness, lying, and a deep foreboding sense of disappointment that never goes away.
Dov Davidoff
#12. Awkwardness and feeling alienated are always going to be a part of comedy.
Mike Birbiglia
#13. The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past days,
mere courtliness, knee-buckles and small- clothes, out of date.
Henry David Thoreau
#14. I expect he did it awkwardly, but awkwardness in men was a sign of sincerity then.
Margaret Atwood
#15. Perhaps anything that he did would have pleased Lucy, but his awkwardness went straight to her heart.
E. M. Forster
#16. All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.
Roman Payne
#17. They both fell silent. For a while the only sound they could hear was the noise of books resting on shelves, which wasn't really enough of a sound to distract them from the awkwardness of the moment.
Gideon Defoe
#18. Mine is the tongue tied silence of awkwardness, hers the smiling silence of anticipation, and then we utter inanities to each other, like "beautiful weather arranged for us" and "I like these kind of clouds.
Meir Shalev
#19. Depeche Mode have never got over their teenage awkwardness with each other. We're still like that. Mates but not mates. That awkwardness is there, only now we have families and kids.
Dave Gahan
#20. Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#21. When people are perfectly polite, it usually means they don't really care. A little awkwardness is more sincere.
Ken Follett
#22. In so many ways, Ascham thought, she was beyond her years - but in the presence of her father she became a little girl again. So confident and assured in private, now she moved with the stilted awkwardness of every twelve-year-old girl. Ascham's heart went out to her.
Matthew Reilly
#23. Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate.
William Hazlitt
#24. The awkwardness of getting reward in a well-off society is that the creation of appetite often requires undoing the work of satisfying appetite.
George Ainslie
#25. Harrison had turned social awkwardness into a form of social power.
David Brooks
#26. Awkwardness with the boyfriend who tried to drown you because he thought he was his own dead brother who turned out not to be dead. Probably not a lot of advice lying around for this particular relationship problem -Hannah
Emma Carlson Berne
#27. I feel emotion rush me - the intimacy, the awkwardness. I want to revolt against it, but I don't. It takes an awful toll on a person to fight down everything they're feeling.
Tarryn Fisher
#28. I was born in Copenhagen, and when I was a year old, we moved to Bangalore. I was always a shy person and was happy with just a few friends and that came from my own social awkwardness. I did not know how to make conversations.
Deepika Padukone
#29. Whenever you get a bunch of guys that are funny or think they're funny, when you first meet, there's always a lot of bits and it's never, ever, ever funny. So basically you have to get through the awkwardness.
Chris Jericho
#30. How we spend our souls matter...We have to desire to become fearless with these moments [of decision]. Fight through the doubt and discouragement and awkwardness of new. (32)
Lysa TerKeurst
#31. Everyone seems to relate to the awkwardness of being a teenager, or even a 30-year-old.
Eddie Kaye Thomas
#32. They sat in the companionable awkwardness caused by knowing extremely private things about each other that had never been directly confided.
Jodi Picoult
#33. To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness.
Ovid
#34. Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity.
Lord Chesterfield
#36. Do not mistake awkwardness for callousness. Remember, I am a solitary person, as I warned you. I'm not accustomed to easy and warm social exchange.
Irvin D. Yalom
#37. It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.
Erin McKeown
#38. In other words, it is impossible: we cannot function properly, and the evening ends in confusion and awkwardness, and very early.
Nick Hornby
#39. I said I looked like a dork and she said that was true, but there was something classic about my dorkiness. I was so open and my awkwardness and embarrassment were so clear and understandable. I was extremely watchable.
Blake Nelson
#40. Shyness displays itself differently in me. I think it's more an awkwardness.
Daniel Radcliffe
#41. Lee was conscious that Nizar watched her trying to adjust her abaya. She knew everyone could tell a Western woman by her awkwardness and her shoes.
Leslie Cockburn
#42. We're still us," I managed, blinking back tears.
"I don't want there to be any awkwardness between us."
"There won't be. I won't let there be if you won't."
"Good, Sweetheart. Good. We'll just forget about this. It didn't mean anything.
Samantha Young
#44. 'Illustrado' is not an autobiography. Only the ideas are autobiographical; the ideas of bitterness, frustration, unchanging society, an individual lost, social awkwardness ... The book satirises archetypes from across Filipino society, and I felt that the least I could do was offer myself up, too.
Miguel Syjuco
#45. I saw the original that Gela Babluani wrote and directed called '13 Tzameti,' and that was very interesting. I believe it was a French film, and I was just intrigued by the awkwardness; the off-beatness of the film really just grasped me.
David Zayas
#46. Awkwardness gives me great comfort. I've never been cool, but I've felt cool. I've been in the cool place, but I wasn't really cool - I was trying to pass for hip or cool. It's the awkwardness that's nice.
Marc Jacobs
#47. Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.
Norah Jones
#48. Discomfort and awkwardness are places where you feel things. I'm a big advocate for being happy. We can choose to live in a happy bubble. But part of being happy is understanding how sad things can be.
Laurel Nakadate
#51. He composed himself inwardly. Sparing the world his awkwardness, hiding vulnerability. Preserving his pride.
Julie Anne Long
#52. I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience
Douglas Coupland
#53. We'd met at university, where he was studying medicine and I was studying social awkwardness and a catastrophic inability to cope with deadlines.
Tammy Cohen
#54. Is Obama satanic?" he asked me. I was grateful for the conversation starter - I consider anything that staves off social awkwardness to be a blessing - but I couldn't lie.
Jon Ronson
#55. I have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side.
David Levithan
#56. She'd prepared herself for any amount of awkwardness or anger, but no for a hug that was probably the longest she'd ever received from a boy, one of those hugs that made it clear how much the person hugging you was in need of a hug, or believed YOU to be in need of a hug.
Tommy Wallach
#57. It is to be hoped, indeed, that LANGUAGE, here as elsewhere, will not get over its awkwardness, and that it will continue to talk of opposites where there are only degrees and many refinements of gradation
Friedrich Nietzsche
#58. There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps into the world will convert into the pertness of a coxcomb; that, a consciousness, which the most delicate feelings produce, and the most extensive knowledge cannot always remove.
Henry MacKenzie
#59. I wish the awkwardness between us doesn't last long. I want my friend back.
Veronica Roth
#60. God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#62. Grace and chocolate cake can cover a world of awkwardness.
Lisa-Jo Baker
#63. That's usually how I get to know strangers - get inappropriately touchy. Once they've experienced the awkwardness of you being way too close for comfort, after that, it all gets easy.
Natasha Lyonne
#64. Awkwardness is where tension is, and tension is where the story is. It's also where the comedy is, which I'm interested in; when it resolves it tends to resolve toward melancholy, a certain resignation, which I find interesting as well.
Lorrie Moore
#65. In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style.
Ernest Hemingway,
#66. Often, joking for me is a way of diffusing the awkwardness of a situation, so it's kind of exhilarating to be a part of projects where there's nothing funny or lighthearted.
Emma Stone
#67. The woman of her dreams went into her arms without shame or awkwardness as the boldness of Love overcame them both.
David Paul Kirkpatrick
#68. For most of our lives, sex seems fated to remain steeped in longing and awkwardness. Whatever the manuals may promise, there are really no solutions to the majority of the dilemmas sex creates for us.
Alain De Botton
#69. I give you Mercedes Athena Thompson, our newest member. Much awkwardness ensued.
Patricia Briggs
#70. Order seems to come from searching for disorder, and awkwardness from searching for harmony or likeness, or the following of a system. The truest order is what you already find there, or that will be given if you don't try for it. When you arrange, you fail.
Fairfield Porter
#71. A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#72. Being an evil dude: You create this false identity of who you really are and hide behind that as a means to deal with your peers and to hide behind your social awkwardness and inabilities and inadequacies.
Blake Judd
#73. He'd left for a reason, and I didn't want to be anyone's blast from the past. Still, not knowing was worse than any potential awkwardness.
Ilona Andrews
#74. I took her in the standard jive hold that I had practised on the skeleton, and immediately felt the awkwardness, approaching revulsion, that I feel when forced into intimate contact with another human.
Graeme Simsion
#75. There is no loneliness more lonely than to be alone in a crowd. No awkwardness more unsettling than the inside joke you do not comprehend.
Claire North
#76. You haven't experienced awkwardness until you've seen a three-million-dollar piece of software cry.
Charles Yu
#77. I think the core criterion is the social awkwardness, but the sensory issues are a serious problem in many, many cases of autism, and they make it impossible to operate in the environment where you're supposed to be social.
Temple Grandin
#78. My freshman year of high school was just awkwardness all around.
Molly Tarlov
#79. Sometimes you need to be awkward to beat awkwardness
Charlie Flynn
#80. Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Helen Keller
#82. If it's any comfort to you, collar me again. You don't in the least know how to do it; but I'll overlook your awkwardness in consideration of your feelings.
Wilkie Collins
#83. This is the best thing about men's friendships: most any awkwardness can be ignored by mutual agreement and, true connection being unimaginable, you can get on with the easier business of parallel living.
William Landay
#84. There was an awkwardness to him, a stoicism that most people, with their need for appearances and fake smiles, found off-putting. Shane couldn't handle small talk or the excess bullshittery of modern society. When
Harlan Coben
#85. No part of me believes this is actually happening, and I don't think it'll feel real until we're cruising down the interstate wondering what the ratio of fun to awkwardness will be this weekend.
Winter Renshaw
#86. She was beautiful, but her youth, the very awkwardness of her age, prevented her from flaunting it.
Richard J. O'Brien
#87. Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.
Ruta Sepetys
#88. The ease I had come to expect with him had evaporated, replaced by awkwardness, a confusing tendency towards wrong turns and misunderstandings
Kate Morton
#90. Representation is very important to everyone, but especially to girls like me, and people like me, whether it be because of my body, because of my race, because of my skin color, because of my awkwardness or where I come from.
Gabourey Sidibe
#91. So you think we can be friends?" Elle asked. "No jealousy? No awkwardness?"
"Jealousy is a sign of insecurity. He adores me," Juliette said.
Tiffany Reisz
#92. There was a twofold awkwardness attached to Juan Diego's attempts to have sex with the life-size Guadalupe doll - better said, the awkwardness of Juan Diego's imagining he was having sex with the plastic virgin.
John Irving
#93. People are dreams and awkwardness and gawk.
Neil Gaiman
#94. There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out.
Victoria Chang
#97. Delaura was aware of his own awkwardness with women. To him they seemed endowed with an untransferable use of reason that allowed them to navigate without difficulty among the hazards of reality.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#98. To combat social awkwardness, I would just act like I couldn't be bothered - that kind of aloof persona or aloof demeanor. It's so off-putting.
Janeane Garofalo
#99. A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.
Maggie Grace
#100. His warmth, which seemed to presume upon some happy old intimacy we did not share, had thrown me into awkwardness.
Donna Tartt
