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
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
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
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