Quotes About Having Social Anxiety

#1. I definitely have an alter ego that can come out and get me out of situations where I'm having social anxiety. I can take a deep breath and create a bubble so I can perform in some way.

Lindy Booth

#2. I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.

Jane Austen

#3. I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.

Daphne Du Maurier

#4. You don't feel like you have to interact with a whole bunch of people when you get on Flipboard. It's not a source of social anxiety.

Mike McCue

#5. For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.

Osamu Dazai

#6. I'd never been great at meeting people. I wasn't shy or anything, It was only that sometimes, with new people, I didn't know how exactly to start a conversation. I liked to listen first. You could learn a lot about someone that way.

Robin Talley

#7. That the military have the power to manipulate personal liberties while cocking a snook at justice and freedom in Balochistan is a fact.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#8. Well, unless you've suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it's hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you're actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die.

Donny Osmond

#9. Introversion and shyness are not synonymous. Introversion is a natural personality trait where we go inside ourselves to process our experiences. Shyness, on the other hand, is a condition marked by fear or extreme anxiety in social situations.

Adam S. McHugh

#10. I had blundered again, obscurely, and rather than go on worrying over my behavior, I decided to just give in and dislike Alice.

Michael Cunningham

#11. Patriotism, currently, is nothing but the deadly evolution of narrow minded politics which has distorted language.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#12. Without such trust and safety, social relationships tend to become strategic rather than cooperative, increasingly full of skepticism and even anxiety and fear about others' intentions. (p. 27)

Donald Rothberg

#13. What is society but an individual? [ ... ] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.

Osamu Dazai

#14. I'm shy, but I'm not clinically shy. I don't have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties.

Samantha Bee

#15. There's a real existential anxiety at having to exist not just in a generalised social framework, but a capitalist social framework.

Autre Ne Veut

#16. I'm sure I'm one of those undiagnosed people with social anxiety.

Junot Diaz

#17. Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.

Simone De Beauvoir