Since my Teenage Days, I had a fascination with literature and good quotes. I used to maintain a special Big Fat Diary for collecting and storing quotes, Quotes which fits into all occasions and moods. After all these years of compilation, Now I have a huge treasure box filled with some precious introvert quotes.
So many years passed by but my enthusiasm and excitements are still the same about quotes collection and compiling.
During the day to day chore routine and so-called mundane life, we need to find time for self. I always manage to steal some “Me Time” from my daily schedule. That’s the time when I cherish myself, I indulge myself and that’s the time I do pamper me with all these quotes, books and coffee.
I am sure even you have your version of “Me Time” in your life. Go through the below-mentioned list and enjoy your own companionship.
Today I give you the most comprehensive list of introvert quotes from my treasure box, I am not boasting but trust me this is going to be your one of the best collection.
Here you will find famous introvert quotes
Quotes about being alone, solitude, and other inspiring introvert quotes for you to enjoy, cherish and use them as and when required.
1. “People empty me. I have to get away to refill.” ~ C. Bukowski
2. “I think a lot, but I don’t say much.” Anne Frank
3. “I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.” ~ Audrey Hepburn
4. “You see things. You keep quiet about them and you understand. “ ~ The Perks of Being a Wallflower
5. “I’m very picky with whom I give my energy to. I prefer to reserve my time, intensity and spirit exclusively to those who reflect sincerity.” ~ Dau Voire
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6. “I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.” ~ Laurie Helgoe
7. “There is a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I’ve got to see my friends because I’m too content with myself.” ~ Drew Barrymore
8. “Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.” ~ William S. Boroughs
9. “Quiet people have the loudest minds.” Stephen Hawking
10. “In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.” ~ Rollo May
11. “What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint for action? What if you wish there were more, not fewer reflective types in the world.” ~Susan Cain
12. “Please kindly go away, I’m introverting.” ~ Beth Buelow, The Introvert Entrepreneur
13. “A good rule of thumb is that any environment that consistently leaves you feeling bad about who you are is the wrong environment.” ~ Laurie Helgoe
14. “Everyone shines, given the right lighting.” ~Susan Cain
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15. “Don’t underestimate me because I’m quiet. I know more than I say, think more than I speak and observe more than you know.” ~ Michaela Chung
16.“Introverts crave meaning so party chit-chat feels like sandpaper to our psyche.” ~ Diane Cameron
17.“I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.” ~Bob Newhart
18.“Let’s clear one thing up: Introverts do not hate small talk because we dislike people. We hate small talk because we hate the barrier it creates between people.” ~ Laurie Helgoe
19.“The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.” Rainer Maria Rilke
20.“Introvert conversations are like jazz. Each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo.” ~ Laurie Helgoe
21.“Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone—that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.”~ Nikola Tesla
22.“In terms of, like, instant relief, cancelling plans is like heroin.” ~John Mulaney
23.“Stay true to your own nature. If you like to do things in a slow and steady way, don’t let others make you feel as if you have to race. If you enjoy the depth, don’t force yourself to seek breadth.” ~ Susan Cain
24.”Introverts treasure the close relationships they have stretched so much to make.”- Adam S. McHugh
25.“I want to be alone… with someone else who wants to be alone.” – Dimitri Zaik.
26.“Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.” ~Anais Nin
27.“Silence is beautiful, not awkward. The human tendency to be afraid of something beautiful is awkward.” ~Elliot Kay
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28.“After an hour or two of being socially on, we introverts need to turn off and recharge … This isn’t antisocial. It isn’t a sign of depression.” Jonathan Rauch
29.“Your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
30.“There’s zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.” ~Susan Cain
31.“I talked to a calzone for fifteen minutes last night before I realized it was just an introverted pizza. I wish all my acquaintances were so tasty. ” ~ Jarod Kintz
32.“The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it’s a Broadway spotlight, for others, a lamplit desk.” ~ Susan Cain
33.“As a child, I suppose I was not quite normal. My happiest times were when I was left alone in the house on a Saturday.” ~ Charles Bukowski
34.“When you’re an introvert like me and you’ve been lonely for a while, and then you find someone who understands you, you become really attached to them. It’s a real release.” Lana Del Rey
35.“Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge.” ~ Paulo Coelho
36.“I was just confused about why I was feeling overwhelmed all the time and trying to adjust to having people work for me. Surprisingly, I think if you’re known on the Internet, you’re probably an introvert.” ~ Felicia Day
37.“’Come out of your shell’ – that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go and some humans are just the same.” ~ Susan Cain
38.“I don’t have time for superficial friends, I suppose if you’re really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what’s the point? ~ Courtney Cox
39.“I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.” ~ Marilynne Robinson
40.“Introverts listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. They tend to dislike conflict. Many have a horror for small talk, but enjoy deep discussions.” ~ Susan Cain
41.“My imagination functions much better when I don’t have to speak to people.” ~ Patricia Highsmith
42.”For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating.” ~ Jonathan Rauch
43.“Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.” ~Charles Bukowski
44.“I’m self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent; then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.” ~ Bjork
45.“Loneliness is failed solitude.” Sherry Turkle
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46.A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. ~ Bertrand Russell
47.“Whatever kind of introvert you are, some people will find you ‘too much’ in some ways and ‘not enough’ in others.” ~ Laurie Helgoe
48.“A wise man once said nothing.” ~ Proverb
49.“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
50.“When I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing.” ~ Mary Oliver
51.“Most people in politics draw energy from backslapping and shaking hands and all that. I draw energy from discussing ideas.” ~ Al Gore
52.“Solitude matters and for some people, it’s the air they breathe.” ~ Susan Cain
53.“I don’t believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by committee… I’m going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone… Not on a committee. Not on a team.” ~ Steve Wozniak
54.“Don’t think of introversion as something that needs to be cured…Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you’re supposed to.”~ Susan Cain
55.“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. ~ Franz Kafka
56.“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.” ~ Plato
57.“I was never less alone than when by myself.” ~ Edward Gibbon
58.Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent. ~ Napoleon Hill
59.“Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.” ~ Liv Tyler
60.“Better to keep quiet and let people think you’re an idiot than speak up and confirm it.” ~ Rodney Dangerfield
61.“I restore myself when I’m alone.” Marilyn Monroe
62.“Introverts dislike small talk, but we are fluent in the language of ideas and dreams.” ~ Michaela Chung
63.“You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.” ~Yoko Ono
64.“Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.” ~ Susan Cain
65.“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes” C.G. Jung
66.“As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your worst enemy. The good news is we generally like our own company, a quality that extroverts often envy. We find comfort in solitude and know how to soothe ourselves.” ~ Laurie Helgoe
67.“People say things to me like, ‘It’s really cool that you don’t go out and get drunk all the time and go to clubs.’ I appreciate that, but I’m kind of an introverted kind of person just by nature.” ~ Emma Watson
68.“I think I’m a weird combination of deeply introverted and very daring. I can feel both those things working.” ~ Helen Hunt
69.“E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone. As far as I’m concerned, I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.” ~ Tom Hanks
70.“My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.” Warsan Shire
71.“I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that’s a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn’t that interested in moving from place to place.” ~ Bell Hooks
72.“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
73.“Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family.” ~ Susan Cain
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74.“I don’t want to be alone. I want to be left alone.” ~ Audrey Hepburn
75.“I don’t hate people, I just feel better when they aren’t around.” ~Charles Bukowski
76.“Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.” ~ Susan Cain
77.“Sometimes quiet people really do have a lot to say … they’re just being careful about who they open up to.” Susan Gale
78.“You only know part of me. I am a universe full of secrets.” ~ Lupytha Hermin
79.“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.” ~ Oscar Wilde
80.“I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.” ~ Margaret Donnano
81.“Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren’t a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.” ~ Cheryl Strayed
82.“An introvert may feel asocial when pressured to go to a party that doesn’t interest her. But for her, the event does not promise meaningful interaction. In fact, she knows that the party will leave her feeling more alone and alienated.” ~ Laurie Helgoe
83.“Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.” ~Audrey Hepburn
84.“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.” ~ Aldous Huxley
85.“People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.” ~ Andy Warhol
86.“Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me. They’re shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone…” ~ Steve Wozniak
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87.“Kindly remove yourself from my personal space. Thanks.” ~ Gemma Correll
88.“Deep inside, she knew who she was, and that person was smart and kind and often even funny, but somehow her personality always got lost somewhere between her heart and her mouth, and she found herself saying the wrong thing or, more often, nothing at all.” ~ Julia Quinn
89.“Sometimes I just shut down and don’t talk to anyone for days. It’s nothing personal.” ~ Sonya Teclai
90.“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps but other people emphasize my loneliness.” ~ Anais Nin
91.“Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking you are boring somebody.” ~Helen Gurley Brown
92.“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.” ~ Anne Lamott
93.“Study me as much as you like, you will never know me. For I differ a hundred ways from what you see me to be.” ~ Rumi
94.“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here forever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.” ~ Virginia Wolf, The Waves
95.“What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it like a secret vice!” Anne Morrow Lindbergh
96.“People inspire you, or they drain you — pick them wisely.” ~ Hans F. Hansen
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97.“I’m indecisive because I see eight sides to everything.” ~ April Kepne
98.“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
99.”So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me. Because I, too, am fluent in silence.”- R. Arnold
100.“Every time we stomp down our introverted nature, we crush part of our soul in the process.” ~ Michaela Chung
Gratitude! It’s great to find like-minded people. Thanks for going through my long list of quotes. I am sure just like me you are also thrilled to have this compilation. If you find this helpful and inspiring then please do share with others so that they can add this up to their treasure box.
Let me know If I miss any quote. Among all the above-mentioned introvert quotes which one is your favorite? Feel free to share below and add up to the list.
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