Top 100 Quotes About Introvert
#1. Carl Jung said that only an introvert could see "the unfathomable stupidity of man
Michael Finkel
#2. I was a bit of an introvert growing up, and I tended to do better in math and science at school, so I went with it.
Keahu Kahuanui
#3. For the introvert, conversation can be a very limited forum for self-expression. When a song moves you, a writer "gets" you, or a theory enlightens you - you and its creator are connecting in a realm beyond sight or speech.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#4. We didn't know you were an introvert, we thought you were just a bitch.
Sophia Dembling
#5. As quiet as I am I find it amazing I can stand in front of hundreds of people now and make a speech because i've had to do it so much. I've so much support from the people around me that I can achieve something like that, crazy introvert that I am, I never would have thought that would happen.
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
#6. If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to get to the good stuff, you need to slow down.
Laurie Helgoe
#7. Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn't easily cross.
Ann Brashares
#8. Surprisingly, I think if you're known on the Internet, you're probably an introvert.
Felicia Day
#9. I'm a very quiet person[introvert] but I love myself, I love my personality and I wouldn't change it for any gold or silver because I know God doesn't make a mistake.
Euginia Herlihy
#10. I know I seem really friendly, but I'm a closet introvert.
Lauren Myracle
#11. The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.
B.F. Skinner
#12. She tells everyone she's an introvert." Cordelia sniffed. "It's a sad, psychological malady. Comes from reading way too much Kafka.
Ellen Hart
#13. An extrovert looks at a stack of books and sees a stack of papers, while an introvert looks at the same stack and sees a soothing source of escape.
Eric Samuel Timm
#14. 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
#15. The introvert is pressured daily, almost from the moment of awakening, to respond and conform to the outer world.
Marti Olsen Laney
#16. When someone speaks to an introvert, her brain responds with a high level of activity. It is as if several lights start flashing on a control panel.
Laurie Helgoe
#17. I'm definitely an introvert, because people drain me. And now I need silence to refuel.
Colleen Hoover
#18. It only meant that my natural inclination was to draw my "energy" from within instead of seeking it outside myself, plus my mom was an introvcert, and so were a lot of normal people. The problem was I was shy on top of that. And we all know how the world loves a shy introvert.
Sue Monk Kidd
#19. Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessively worried about what people think of you. Whereas an introvert might not feel any of those things at all, they simply have the preference to be in a quieter setting.
Susan Cain
#20. The Socially Accessible introvert looks like an extrovert on the outside and sees extroversion as a bar that he or she can never quite reach. These individuals are often very successful in social arenas, but fault themselves for not having more fun.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#21. being an introvert is less about one's personality type and more about how someone prefers to recharge their batteries. This
Nic Williams
#22. I think Jon Foo and my chemistry is incredible! Foo is a genuine introvert and I'm a genuine extrovert. We're the perfect ying and yang, on and off camera.
Justin Hires
#23. The only thing a true introvert dislikes more than talking about himself is repeating himself.
Jonathan Rauch
#24. It's not that I'm so smart," said Einstein, who was a consummate introvert. "It's that I stay with problems longer.
Susan Cain
#25. I have always been a bit of an introvert. In fact, my dad used to force me to meet people so that my interpersonal skills improve. As an individual, I was happiest when left alone.
Ashwin Sanghi
#26. The second difference between the introvert and the extrovert is how they experience external stimulation. Extroverts like to experience a lot, and introverts like to know a lot about what they experience.
Marti Olsen Laney
#27. I've always considered myself to be similar. I'm no recluse, but, like an introvert, I need a lot of time alone to reflect and recharge, and I am easily drained by being around others, but at the same time, like an extrovert, I'm energized by parties and conversation.
Kate Bolick
#28. As evidenced during my failed audition, I'm a thorough introvert who would completely hate living in a 'Real World' house. I would have taken my Ikea comforter to the confessional room and never come out.
Andrea Seigel
#29. That's why Professor Little, the consummate introvert, lectures with such passion. Like a modern-day Socrates, he loves his students deeply; opening their minds and attending to their well-being are two of his core personal projects. When
Susan Cain
#30. I'm reserved. I'm more of an introvert than an extrovert.
Nicole Kidman
#31. I secretly want to raise my hand and say, introvert in the building!
Krista Ritchie
#32. When I left for college, I told myself that this was a chance for reinvention. No one on the other side of the country knew that I was an introvert, so maybe if I tried not acting like an introvert, I wouldn't be one.
Andrea Seigel
#33. I'm an introvert who can fake being an extrovert. I love people, but they exhaust me.
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#34. A shy kid might look longingly at other kids playing in the schoolyard, afraid and unsure about how to approach them, but an introvert is perfectly content on her own.
Laurie Helgoe
#35. My mother was an introvert and quite religious. And we were brought up in the church. And when she learned that I wanted to act, she simply said: 'You cannot live here and do that.'
Cicely Tyson
#36. There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.
Carl Jung
#37. The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.
Ariel Gore
#38. Don is "a bitter introvert," as he cheerfully puts it - bitter because the more time he spends at HBS, the more convinced he becomes that he'd better change his ways.
Susan Cain
#39. If you're a true introvert, other people are basically energy vampires. You don't hate them; you just have to be strategic about when you expose yourself to them - like the sun.
Amy Schumer
#40. I'm an introvert at heart ... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.
Roy Rogers
#41. Introverts are more effective leaders of proactive employees. When you have a creative, energetic work force, an introvert is going to draw out that energy better.
Laurie Helgoe
#42. It was easy for me in my bathrobe to provide really great customer service. As an introvert, it's really much easier to do than when standing in a retail store.
Sophia Amoruso
#43. Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.
Criss Jami
#44. There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.
Carl Jung
#45. At its heart, Gothic Fiction is the introvert's "Hero's Journey" where heroes and heroines must navigate the uncharted territory of the mind in order to solve the mystery of their life's adventure.
Barrymore Tebbs
#46. I'm really an inner spirit that only makes itself known through the music. A lot of people think I'm an introvert, or quiet and moody. I've even heard some people say that there's a certain mystery or darkness about me. I'm not that way. I'm just really into what I do.
Faith Evans
#47. Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert.
Paula Cole
#49. Mom always says to leave him alone, that he's an introvert and he needs to get his energy from a quiet place inside himself and that she can relate. I think he gets his energy from paint fumes and really good wee.
Carrie Firestone
#50. Ah, yes, the mix tape. The mating call of the introvert.
Sophia Dembling
#51. Introvert integrity means going the distance for what we love: moving from apology to acceptance, from acceptance to acknowledgement, and from acknowledgment to activism.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#52. If you babble enneagram, I am a five. If you boast myers-briggs, I am an introvert-intuition-thinking-perceiving.
Santosh Kalwar
#53. In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.
Criss Jami
#54. What I loved about 'Summer' was that they were these four bright kids with a wonderful future. In a way, she was the one with the brains, and then you have the beauty queen and the jock and the introvert.
Kevin Williamson
#55. We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within.
Bertrand Russell
#56. But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too much for an introvert like me to handle.
Paula Cole
#57. I'm an off-the-charts introvert. To me, being around groups of strangers is exhausting. I've had to sort of train myself to think about two tactics: finding common ground and invoking humor.
Sam Yagan
#58. I couldn't help but feel very different from everybody, so I think that's why I found such a big world in music, and that's why I kind of - I was an introvert as a kid, but I loved the piano, and that's where I felt at home.
Emeli Sande
#59. He always thinks because I'm reading, I'm not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.
Pierce Brown
#60. There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner. I decided, 'It's okay to be an introvert, but I don't want to be a loner. I want a few other people in my life.'
Mark Vonnegut
#61. He wasn't an introvert, as he loved his family and his few close friends like Ben Kilpatrick,
RaeAnne Thayne
#62. As an introvert, you crave intimate moments and deep connections--and those usually aren't found in a crowd.
Jenn Granneman
#63. When an introvert is quiet, don't assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient.
Laurie Helgoe
#64. I was a total introvert who did not belong in public. It was my service to everyone.
Tiffany King
#65. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extrovert.
Pierce Brown
#66. An introvert talks more than an extrovert because when the mouth is closed, the mind is opened.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#67. Whatever kind of introvert you are, some people will find you "too much" in some ways and "not enough" in others.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#68. Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude is part of a writer's sensibility.
Robyn Davidson
#69. It's hard out there for a fuzzy little introvert.
Amy Schumer
#70. Another explained, I think I'd speak for any introvert when I say if you could hear all the thoughts running through an introvert's mind at any given moment - you'd feel like you'd just had your ear talked off for the last hour.
Sophia Dembling
#71. (Taking shelter in bathrooms is a surprisingly common phenomenon, as you probably know if you're an introvert.
Susan Cain
#72. I would admit I'm an introvert. I don't know why introverts have to apologize.
Bill Gross
#73. Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.
Gautam Adani
#74. I'm an introvert. Introverts have a huge advantage over extroverts. We can create a mission and we can act on it.
Jeb Bush
#75. I'm very honest in my music and I'm often asked to explain the lyrics; as an introvert, I find that quite hard. And I always wear high heels on stage, which can be painful.
Natasha Bedingfield
#76. I was always an introvert as a kid. Then, when I first kind of came out as a human being, I used to be one of those guys who'd go nuts on the dance floor, and people would gather around.
Daryl Hall
#77. People that want to be in the tabloids will get into the tabloids. I just stay home and don't go out much. My personality is not an introvert, but that's how I am as far as going out to parties. I just stay in my house and hang out with friends.
Keke Palmer
#78. Introvert's nervous system is more sensitive to stimulation.
Anonymous
#79. I'm an introvert. I get my energy by spending time alone. I need that hour or two to myself every day.
Amit Bhatia
#81. For those of us who aren't great with people, we figure that silence is always the safest bet. If you're an introvert, you spend so much of your time wishing that other people would just shut the hell up that you figure you're doing everyone a favor.
David Wong
#82. There is a certain delightful sort of hope which the introvert can receive only by having company over...the hope that they will leave soon.
Criss Jami
#83. I love introvert people. They ignore us on face unlike the extrovert's alter ego
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#84. Anyone who writes books is at least mostly an introvert. It's amazing to be able to share that internalized part of myself, that little world that no one really knows about. I just wrote down it down on a piece of paper just to be crazy, and people loving that is so strange.
Pierce Brown
#85. It's important to cultivate friendships. Whether you are an extrovert or an introvert, as a human you are a social being. For the sake of your mental and emotional health, it's important to be honest about and honor your need for meaningful connections.
Susan Barbara Apollon
#86. It's not like I'm an introvert. You get to know me, I can have a conversation with you. But in front of the media, I'm probably more of a quiet guy.
Derrek Lee
#87. I'm a helpless, recovering introvert
Robyn Carr
#88. Im a shy person. I contradict my own profession, because Im an introvert in a very glamorous world.
Deepika Padukone
#89. A few things introverts are not: The word introvert is not a synonym for hermit or misanthrope. Introverts can be these things, but most are perfectly friendly.
Susan Cain
#90. But the most important thing to know about being an introvert is that there's nothing wrong with you. You're not broken because you're quiet. It's okay to stay home on a Friday night instead of going to a party. Being an introvert is a perfectly normal 'thing' to be.
Jenn Granneman
#91. Where else but cyberspace does the introvert have the opportunity to start in our comfort zone of written communication and talk later?
Laurie A. Helgoe
#92. It would be wise to be concerned about the introvert who is deprived of solitude. Is she neglecting herself due to depression? Is she falling victim to guilt and self-reproach? Does she feel cut off from pleasure? Does she feel dead?
Laurie A. Helgoe
#93. When an introvert cares about someone, she also wants contact, not so much to keep up with the events of the other person's life, but to keep up with what's inside: the evolution of ideas, values, thoughts, and feelings.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#94. The introvert's anthem for not wanting to hang out is 'It's not you; it's me.
Criss Jami
#95. Introverts keep their best stuff inside - that is, until it is ready. And this drives extroverts crazy! The explanation for the introvert's behavior - and there must be an explanation for this behavior, say the extroverts - is that he or she is antisocial, out of touch, or simply a snob.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#96. The inquiry "who am I" turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
Ramana Maharshi
#97. 1. A negative thinking introvert will rise to the occasion a positive extrovert will only fall - given time.
Peter SMith Talking Cures
#99. When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.
Annie Dillard
#100. The dual ends of Arca's personality - he is both a press-shy introvert and, in his visual work, a bold exhibitionist - come through in the breadth of his compositions.
The New Yorker
