Introvert insight:

The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting.
For some, it’s a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk.
Use your natural powers – of persistence, concentration, and insight – to do work you love and work that matters.
Solve problems.
Make art.
Think deeply.
 
– Susan Cain.

 I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
 
– Marcus Tullius Cicero.
 

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.
 
– Anaïs Nin.
 

He’s a wallflower.
You see things.
You keep quiet about them.
And you understand.
 
– Stephen Chbosky.

Introvert insight:

... I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength.
I have such a strong inner life that I'm never bored and only occasionally lonely.
No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.
- Susan Cain.

 

Introverts:
As long as we have our books, our imagination, and a slice of solitude, we're content.
- from The Irresistible Introvert, by Michaela Chung.

 

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people than I feel on my own.
- Henry Rollins.

 

I withdraw from people and places from time to time.
I need space from a world that is filled with millions of mouths that talk too much but never have anything to say.
- Kaitlin Foster.

Introvert insight:

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

– Henry David Thoreau.

 
Don’t think of introversion as something that needs to be cured.
– Susan Cain.

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.

 

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
– William S. Burroughs.

Introvert insight:

 

Whatever kind of introvert you are, some people will find you 'too much' in some ways and 'not enough' in others. 

- Laurie Helgoe.

 
There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.
- Susan Cain.
 

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 Coello.
 

Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
- Charles Bukowski.

Introvert insight:

Solitude matters.
And for some people it’s the air they breathe.
 
– Susan Cain.
 

For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating.
 
– Jonathan Rauch.
 

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 an introverted kind of person just by nature.

 
– Emma Watson.

I am primarily a loner.
I don’t go to clubs.
I don’t hang out with people.
I don’t know many people.
It’s just the way it ended up.
It’s not a sob story; it’s fine for me.
 
– Henry Rollins.