Top 100 Quotes About Shyness

#1. She had spoken it; but she trembled when it was done, conscious that her words were listened to, and daring not even to try to observe their effect.

Jane Austen

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#2. I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.

Tom Hooper

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#3. He felt a frisson of shyness when he pulled his shirt off, but he firmly told his modesty it could go fuck itself in the bathroom with that giant cockroach and continued undressing.

M. Jules Aedin

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#4. Powerful new drug-free treatments have been developed for depression and for every conceivable type of anxiety, such as chronic worrying, shyness, public speaking anxiety, test anxiety, phobias, and panic attacks. The goal of the treatment is not just partial improvement but full recovery.

David D. Burns

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#5. Jenny was struck again by the contrast between his attractiveness and his shyness. It was endearing.

Katie Allen

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

Emil Cioran

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#7. So, what's up with you and Damian?" Helena asks.
"What do you mean?" I can feel the hear of a blush coloring on my cheeks. I can't ever seem to not show how I feel. It's becoming pretty annoying.

Lisa Ann Sandell

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#8. people push themselves through shyness, doubt, and fear. They push boundaries. They push limits. They push beyond what's expected. It

Richard St. John

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#9. Call it anything else if you will - fear, anxiety, nervousness, sweating
- but "shyness" is the historic word for it.

Richard N. Bolles

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#10. My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

Al Pacino

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#11. When he was younger, he used the slightest opportunity to slip away from people, without his being able to understand very clearly why he did so: a longing to break free and to breathe in the fresh air?

Patrick Modiano

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#12. 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

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

Donna Tartt

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#14. With his shyness and his formality and his tyrannical rages he protected his interior so ferociously that if you loved him, as she did, you learned that you could do him no greater kindness than to respect his privacy.

Jonathan Franzen

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#15. shyness is caused by an internal feeling that you are not worthy to be in the conversation.

Scott Adams

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#16. I really started dreaming ... and broke out of my shyness when I got to Howard University. My first acting class was an Intro to Acting class with Professor Bay, who really broke me out of my shell, encouraged me to follow my dreams and make them a reality.

Lance Gross

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#17. Libby wasn't a big talker - Michelle and Debby seemed to hog all her words. She made pronouncements: I like ponies. I hate spaghetti. I hate you. Like her mother, she had no poker face. No poker mood. It was all right there. When she wasn't angry or sad, she just didn't say much.

Gillian Flynn

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#18. I've been watching you and Roar. Wanting it to be me training with you." His shoulders came up. "I don't want to do it now."
"Why?" Aria's voice was high and thin.
He smiled, a flash of shyness, before he leaned close. "There are other things I'd rather do when I'm alone with you.

Veronica Rossi

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#19. I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.

Stephanie Beacham

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#20. 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

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#21. My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.

Dejan Stojanovic

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#22. I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.

Dorothy Hamill

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#23. A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.

Vernon Lee

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#24. True humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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#25. Never let shyness conquer your mind.

Arfa Karim

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#26. There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more.

Priscilla Presley

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#27. She'll never understand the shyness of Sophie's words or the silence of her beauty.

Markus Zusak

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#28. Rather awkwardly shy and therefore at times defensive and rather too assertive

John Edward Williams

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#29. And like the old stereotype, I overcame my shyness by making my friends laugh.

Paul Merton

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#30. Nothing beats that moment of revelation when shyness loses ground to boldness, and quiet moans turn into squeals and swearing.

Paulo Coelho

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#31. I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon ...

John Geddes

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#32. The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail forever.

Daphne Du Maurier

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#33. The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness.

Victor Hugo

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#34. 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

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

Steven Morrissey

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#36. You take off your clothes and you're in bed with somebody, and that is indeed where whatever you've concealed, your particularity, whatever it may be, however encrypted, is going to be found out, and that's what all the shyness is all about and what everybody fears.

Philip Roth

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#37. Be not so severe as to cause shyness, nor so clement as to encourage boldness.

Saadi

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#38. Introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness

Steve Martin

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#39. A mix of shyness and arrogance; he has been rejected before. Somehow that cheapens him, his hesitance makes her strong.

Lakambini A. Sitoy

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#40. A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.

Khalil Gibran

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#41. I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness.

Lucille Ball

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#42. I can work with shyness, but for the most part I want people to feel comfortable with me. It's really more about the photographer feeing comfortable right when they walk in that makes the subject feel comfortable.

Ryan McGinley

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#43. Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

Andre Dubus

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#44. feeling shy is simply replacing courage with the feeling and fear of how others will perceive or what they will say about us after and act. Courage dares regardless

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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#45. There was something about him that drove the shyness out of you, a kind of understanding that went deeper than words and set up an instantaneous closeness. It was odd; we couldn't have been more different. Arthur Gordon

Arthur Gordon

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#46. The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.

Philip G. Zimbardo

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#47. Silence has always been my default mode - my best defense against the rest of the world.

Matthew Quick

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#48. 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

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#49. Shyness is shit. It isn't cute or feminine or appealing. It's torment, and it's shit.

Octavia E. Butler

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#50. Friends are a wonderful thing. They won't make you feel like a nothing.

Justine Hail

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#51. From the deepest silence between us arose uncertain, utterly vague and, as it were, whispered varieties on the theme 'smile'.

Nicola Lecca

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#52. I've gotten over my shyness from many years of doing public events.

Alex Honnold

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#53. Always a shy one, he swallowed his pill of Catholicism seriously.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

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#54. It's so much easier for me to get up and be someone else than expressing my own thoughts and feelings. There's definitely something about creating a cloak of a character that helped me deal with my shyness.

Lindy Booth

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#55. I was eighteen, this was back in '46, so we also had these very frightening images of soldiers in the streets of Paris. So the effect of war, plus my shyness, plus my lack of education - I was afraid of men, really. It changes later, but it took me a certain time to adjust.

Agnes Varda

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#56. It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes.

Dian Fossey

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#57. This was, I thought, the language of shy men, men too much alone with their reading and their ideas - politics, war, distant countries, tyrants. Men who would bury their heads in such stuff just to avert their eyes from a woman's simple heartache.

Alice McDermott

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#58. Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#59. 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

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#60. Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.

Criss Jami

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#61. Shyness displays itself differently in me. I think it's more an awkwardness.

Daniel Radcliffe

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#62. Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

Joseph Priestley, 1733-1804

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#63. I think the shyness one feels in childhood is often overcome with time. There are children who hide behind their parents' legs, but you don't see grown-ups hiding behind people. It just doesn't happen. I mean, not that often. People develop social skills over time.

Susan Cain

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

Arfa Karim

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#65. Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.

Susan Cain

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#66. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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#67. Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the meek, the meek do not inherit the Earth, they serve those who are self confident and self assertive.

Dean Koontz

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#68. Shyness is a curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people at any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look down.

Daniel Handler

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#69. It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.

Karin Slaughter

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#70. You're not shy. You just like who you like.

Christina Baker Kline

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#71. The ones who stay unnoticed often see the most. They live out other people's lives, since their own are so unremarkable ...

Setona Mizushiro

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#72. We had not liked each other much at first. He mistook my shyness for arrogance and I failed to see that his arrogance masked his shyness.

Michael Nava

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#73. I've always been shy, but in New Orleans there were times my shyness would cause me actual physical pain. I'd get so claustrophobic around people that I'd bend over from the sickness in my stomach. That's not a good way to be when you're famous, obviously.

Ricky Williams

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#74. Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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#75. A place has almost a shyness of a person with strangers; its secret is not to be surprised by too direct interrogation.

Arthur Symons

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#76. I've written about a lot of different things, but the whole idea of writing for another character is unusual for pop music. Most of the repertory is love songs, and most of mine isn't. I don't know if that's a mental defect, or shyness, or what.

Randy Newman

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#77. Perhaps every accidental cluster of people has a short period of grace, in between an initial shyness and prejudice on the one hand and eventual repugnance and betrayal on the other.

Gregory Maguire

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#78. 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

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#79. I wanted to escape into her layers, to skim along the surface, and get lost in the beauty. To feel the shyness. To sink beneath, deeper into that pent-up confusion and dark.

A.L. Jackson

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#80. I spoke his language; I was fluent in shy.

C.L.Stone

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#81. Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of.

Rhys Ifans

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#82. I was on the shy side at school (one school report called me 'diffident') and Braefield had added a special timidity, but when I had a natural wonder... I lost all my diffidence, and freely approached others, all my fear forgotten.

Oliver Sacks

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#83. Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.

Susan Cain

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#84. I have seldom been described as shy.

Nicholas Sparks

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#85. You know I was a shy guy and people didn't know that and still don't know it today. I'm sure basketball brought my shyness out because of the fact that you have to do interviews, and that people are always talking to you in terms of the fans and everything.

Magic Johnson

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#86. I gave my artistic laugh and also threw in some quirky language for good measure. "Lawks-a-mercy, no! I'm going to have a long bath and ... "
I looked shyly down. Which is pretty impressive to have done artistic laugh, quirky language and shyness all in the space of ten seconds.

Louise Rennison

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#87. I used to think that drinking would help my shyness, but all it did was exaggerate all the negative qualities.

Elizabeth Taylor

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#88. Fluttershyes are like regular shyes, only shinier, and, apparently - also shyer. Whenever petted - they don't flutter, but run away instead.

Will Advise

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#89. It's so difficult for two shy people to manage.

J.D. Robb

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#90. Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is inherently painful; introversion is not.

Susan Cain

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#91. her body moving steadily with his, not a bit of self-conscious shyness or reservation in her movements. He ran his hands over both her breasts, sat up and took one hard nipple into his mouth.

Jennifer Ryan

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#92. I've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness.

Clea Duvall

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#93. When she was a child her mother had once told her shyness was almost a form of selfishness. You see, when you hang your head like that, darling, people think you don't like them!

Liane Moriarty

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#94. Shyness takes so many different forms. Some people are shy and soft. Some, shy and hard. Or in Josh's case, shy, and wrapped in military-grade armor. "Josh,

Sally Thorne

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#95. The outcome of fear is disappointment and shyness is frustration.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

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#96. Into the dark night
Resignedly I go,
I am not so afraid of the dark night
As the friends I do not know,
I do not fear the night above
As I fear the friends below.

Stevie Smith

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#97. We need to do teacher training to educate them about what temperament means. Shyness is painful and you want to help a child with shyness - but the underlying temperament of being a careful, sensitive person is to be honoured, valued and respected.

Susan Cain

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#98. He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.

Chanakya

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#99. What we call the heart is a nervous sensation, like shyness, which gradually disappears in society. It is fervent in the nursery, strong in the domestic circle, tumultuous at school.

Benjamin Disraeli

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#100. Shyness is I-ness. Shyness is really wondering if you have other people's approval.

Dorothy Sarnoff

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