100 Introvert Quotes That’ll Make You Fall In Love With Your Me TIME

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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. โ€œPeople empty me. I have to get away to refill.โ€ ~ C. Bukowski

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2. โ€œI think a lot, but I donโ€™t say much.โ€ Anne Frank

3. โ€œI have to be alone very often. Iโ€™d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. Thatโ€™s how I refuel.โ€ ~ Audrey Hepburn

4. โ€œYou see things. You keep quiet about them and you understand. โ€œ ~ The Perks of Being a Wallflower

5. โ€œIโ€™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.โ€ ~ Dau Voire

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6. โ€œI am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.โ€ ~ Laurie Helgoe

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7. โ€œThere 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, Iโ€™ve got to see my friends because Iโ€™m too content with myself.โ€ ~ Drew Barrymore

8. โ€œSilence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.โ€ ~ William S. Boroughs

9. โ€œQuiet people have the loudest minds.โ€ Stephen Hawking

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10. โ€œIn order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.โ€ ~ Rollo May

11. โ€œWhat 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.โ€ ~Susan Cain

12. โ€œPlease kindly go away, Iโ€™m introverting.โ€ ~ Beth Buelow, The Introvert Entrepreneur

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13. โ€œA good rule of thumb is that any environment that consistently leaves you feeling bad about who you are is the wrong environment.โ€ ~ Laurie Helgoe

14. โ€œEveryone shines, given the right lighting.โ€ ~Susan Cain

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15. โ€œDonโ€™t underestimate me because Iโ€™m quiet. I know more than I say, think more than I speak and observe more than you know.โ€ ~ Michaela Chung

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16.โ€œIntroverts crave meaning so party chit-chat feels like sandpaper to our psyche.โ€ ~ Diane Cameron

17.โ€œI am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.โ€ ~Bob Newhart

18.โ€œLetโ€™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.โ€ ~ Laurie Helgoe

19.โ€œThe highest form of love is to be the protector of another personโ€™s solitude.โ€ Rainer Maria Rilke

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20.โ€œIntrovert conversations are like jazz. Each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo.โ€ ~ Laurie Helgoe

21.โ€œOriginality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be aloneโ€”that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.โ€~ Nikola Tesla

22.โ€œIn terms of, like, instant relief, cancelling plans is like heroin.โ€ ~John Mulaney

23.โ€œStay true to your own nature. If you like to do things in a slow and steady way, donโ€™t let others make you feel as if you have to race. If you enjoy the depth, donโ€™t force yourself to seek breadth.โ€ ~ Susan Cain

24.”Introverts treasure the close relationships they have stretched so much to make.”- Adam S. McHugh

25.โ€œI want to be aloneโ€ฆ with someone else who wants to be alone.โ€ โ€“ Dimitri Zaik.

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26.โ€œOur 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.โ€ ~Anais Nin

27.โ€œSilence is beautiful, not awkward. The human tendency to be afraid of something beautiful is awkward.โ€ ~Elliot Kay

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28.โ€œAfter an hour or two of being socially on, we introverts need to turn off and recharge โ€ฆ This isnโ€™t antisocial. It isnโ€™t a sign of depression.โ€ Jonathan Rauch

29.โ€œYour 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.โ€ ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

30.โ€œThereโ€™s zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.โ€ ~Susan Cain

31.โ€œI 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.โ€จโ€ ~ Jarod Kintz

32.โ€œThe secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, itโ€™s a Broadway spotlight, for others, a lamplit desk.โ€ ~ Susan Cain

33.โ€œAs a child, I suppose I was not quite normal. My happiest times were when I was left alone in the house on a Saturday.โ€ ~ Charles Bukowski

34.โ€œWhen youโ€™re an introvert like me and youโ€™ve been lonely for a while, and then you find someone who understands you, you become really attached to them. Itโ€™s a real release.โ€ Lana Del Rey

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35.โ€œBlessed 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.โ€ ~ Paulo Coelho

36.โ€œI 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 youโ€™re known on the Internet, youโ€™re probably an introvert.โ€ ~ Felicia Day

37.โ€œโ€™Come out of your shellโ€™ โ€“ that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go and some humans are just the same.โ€ ~ Susan Cain

38.โ€œI donโ€™t have time for superficial friends, I suppose if youโ€™re really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, whatโ€™s the point? ~ Courtney Cox

39.โ€œI owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.โ€ ~ Marilynne Robinson

40.โ€œIntroverts 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.โ€ ~ Susan Cain

41.โ€œMy imagination functions much better when I donโ€™t have to speak to people.โ€ ~ Patricia Highsmith

42.”For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating.โ€ ~ Jonathan Rauch

43.โ€œBeware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.โ€ ~Charles Bukowski

44.โ€œIโ€™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.โ€ ~ Bjork

45.โ€œLoneliness is failed solitude.โ€ 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.โ€œWhatever kind of introvert you are, some people will find you โ€˜too muchโ€™ in some ways and โ€˜not enoughโ€™ in others.โ€ ~ Laurie Helgoe

48.โ€œA wise man once said nothing.โ€ ~ Proverb

49.โ€œIn an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.โ€ ~ Criss Jami

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50.โ€œWhen 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.โ€ ~ Mary Oliver

51.โ€œMost people in politics draw energy from backslapping and shaking hands and all that. I draw energy from discussing ideas.โ€ ~ Al Gore

52.โ€œSolitude matters and for some people, itโ€™s the air they breathe.โ€ ~ Susan Cain

53.โ€œI donโ€™t believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by committeeโ€ฆ Iโ€™m going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work aloneโ€ฆ Not on a committee. Not on a team.โ€ ~ Steve Wozniak

54.โ€œDonโ€™t think of introversion as something that needs to be curedโ€ฆSpend your free time the way you like, not the way you think youโ€™re supposed to.โ€~ Susan Cain

55.โ€œYou 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.โ€œWise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.โ€ ~ Plato

57.โ€œI was never less alone than when by myself.โ€ ~ 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.โ€œSolitude has its own very strange beauty to it.โ€ ~ Liv Tyler

60.โ€œBetter to keep quiet and let people think youโ€™re an idiot than speak up and confirm it.โ€ ~ Rodney Dangerfield

61.โ€œI restore myself when Iโ€™m alone.โ€ Marilyn Monroe

62.โ€œIntroverts dislike small talk, but we are fluent in the language of ideas and dreams.โ€ ~ Michaela Chung

63.โ€œYou may think Iโ€™m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.โ€ ~Yoko Ono

64.โ€œLove is essential, gregariousness is optional.โ€ ~ Susan Cain

65.โ€œYour visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakesโ€ C.G. Jung

66.โ€œAs 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.โ€ ~ Laurie Helgoe

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67.โ€œPeople say things to me like, โ€˜Itโ€™s really cool that you donโ€™t go out and get drunk all the time and go to clubs.โ€™ I appreciate that, but Iโ€™m kind of an introverted kind of person just by nature.โ€ ~ Emma Watson

68.โ€œI think Iโ€™m a weird combination of deeply introverted and very daring. I can feel both those things working.โ€ ~ Helen Hunt

69.โ€œE-mail is far more convenient than the telephone. As far as Iโ€™m concerned, I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.โ€ ~ Tom Hanks

70.โ€œMy alone feels so good, Iโ€™ll only have you if youโ€™re sweeter than my solitude.โ€ Warsan Shire

71.โ€œI really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and thatโ€™s a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isnโ€™t that interested in moving from place to place.โ€ ~ Bell Hooks

72.โ€œI would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.โ€ ~ Henry David Thoreau

73.โ€œIntroverts, 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.โ€ ~ Susan Cain

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74.โ€œI donโ€™t want to be alone. I want to be left alone.โ€ ~ Audrey Hepburn

75.โ€œI donโ€™t hate people, I just feel better when they arenโ€™t around.โ€ ~Charles Bukowski

76.โ€œIntroverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.โ€ ~ Susan Cain

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77.โ€œSometimes quiet people really do have a lot to say โ€ฆ theyโ€™re just being careful about who they open up to.โ€ Susan Gale

78.โ€œYou only know part of me. I am a universe full of secrets.โ€ ~ Lupytha Hermin

79.โ€œA bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.โ€ ~ Oscar Wilde

80.โ€œI prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.โ€ ~ Margaret Donnano

81.โ€œAlone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it werenโ€™t a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.โ€ ~ Cheryl Strayed

82.โ€œAn introvert may feel asocial when pressured to go to a party that doesnโ€™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.โ€ ~ Laurie Helgoe

83.โ€œLiving 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 โ€“ because you canโ€™t take it in all at once.โ€ ~Audrey Hepburn

84.โ€œThe more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.โ€ ~ Aldous Huxley

85.โ€œPeople are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.โ€ ~ Andy Warhol

86.โ€œMost inventors and engineers Iโ€™ve met are like me. Theyโ€™re shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them are artists. And artists work best aloneโ€ฆโ€ ~ Steve Wozniak

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87.โ€œKindly remove yourself from my personal space. Thanks.โ€ ~ Gemma Correll

88.โ€œDeep 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.โ€ ~ Julia Quinn

89.โ€œSometimes I just shut down and donโ€™t talk to anyone for days. Itโ€™s nothing personal.โ€ ~ Sonya Teclai

90.โ€œI am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I donโ€™t know why, some people fill the gaps but other people emphasize my loneliness.โ€ ~ Anais Nin

91.โ€œNever fail to know that if you are doing all the talking you are boring somebody.โ€ ~Helen Gurley Brown

92.โ€œLighthouses donโ€™t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.โ€ ~ Anne Lamott

93.โ€œStudy me as much as you like, you will never know me. For I differ a hundred ways from what you see me to be.โ€ ~ Rumi

94.โ€œHow 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.โ€ ~ Virginia Wolf, The Waves

95.โ€œWhat 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!โ€ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

96.โ€œPeople inspire you, or they drain you โ€” pick them wisely.โ€ ~ Hans F. Hansen

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97.โ€œIโ€™m indecisive because I see eight sides to everything.โ€ ~ April Kepne

98.โ€œIn a gentle way, you can shake the world.โ€ โ€“ Mahatma Gandhi

99.”So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me. Because I, too, am fluent in silence.”- R. Arnold

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100.โ€œEvery time we stomp down our introverted nature, we crush part of our soul in the process.โ€ ~ 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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