167 Quotes About Shyness

Don't be shy: for to be shy means that you do not believe in who you are or your worth.

This one is for the lonerFor the one who chooses a table in the cornerWho is unafraid to come home to them selfLoner, don’t rob yourselfOf the gift of being with othersYour human sisters and brothersA loner, it’s okay to be oneBut don’t let them say you’re gone

Parliament will also struggle with Shakespeare. Rappers stutter too when they flirt. The palms of poised politicians sweat. Police officers fart. Princesses get wedgies. Royal Guards had to keep from laughing. The last rep in the gym will make any arm shake. Presidents had to apply. Rome fell.

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

All singers now sound the same because all you have to do is whisper and sound pretty. No one ever belts. Don’t you wanna hear someone’s heart again?" she said. "All I hear is tongue and breath and cheek and throat. I want ugly again. Mistakes. Uvula.

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

The misfortune of solitary and timid people - who are timid from self-consciousness - is just that, though they have eyes and indeed open them wide, they see nothing, or see everything in a false light, as though through coloured spectacles.

Well, we never expected this!" they all say. "No one liked her. They all said she was pretentious, awkward, difficult to approach, prickly, too fond of her tales, haughty, prone to versifying, disdainful, cantankerous, and scornful. But when you meet her, she is strangely meek, a completely different person altogether!"How embarrassing! Do they really look upon me as a dull thing, I wonder? But I am what I am.

Sunglasses are all too often used to hide shyness … or unhappiness.