181 Quotes About Introverts

Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you're told that you're "in your head too much", a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral.Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.

Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.

The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all.

There's a difference between preferring books to parties and preferring sixteen cats to seeing the light of day.

The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.

A few years ago, I started to read studies showing that people who expressed more extroversion had higher overall wellbeing. This did not surprise me, as all my research has shown that daily social interactions are the single best predictor of happiness....I’ve learned this lesson regarding my own work as I’ve researched this book, and I have become committed to pushing myself out of my [introverted] personality’s comfort zone.

Introverts live in two worlds: We visit the world of people, but solitude and the inner world will always be our home.

People were... exhausting. They made her anxious. Leaving her apartment every morning was the turning over of a giant hourglass, the mental energy she’d stored up overnight eroding grain by grain. She refueled during the day by grabbing moments of solitude and sometimes felt her life was a long-distance swim between islands of silence.

In solitude, listen to your heart, for at that moment, it speaks nothing but the truth.