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 insights:

 

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet ... maybe we could understand something.
– Federico Fellini.

 
Introverts dislike small talk, but are fluent in the language of ideas and dreams.
– from The Irresistible Introvert by Michaela Chung.

 Sometimes I go out and hear people talk about irrelevant things, and then I tell myself this is why I don't go out.
– Keanu Reeves.

When an introvert is quiet, don't assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient.
– Laurie Helgoe.

Introvert insight:

I don’t mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I’m good at. I do what I do and that’s it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.
– Henry Rollins.

I think a lot, but I don't say much.
– Anne Frank.

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

– Euripides.

 

We introverts love to wander.

Our favorite destination for quiet explorations is our imagination.

No matter where we are, we feel called away by our own thoughts.

– from The Irresistible Introvert, by Michaela Chung.

Introvert insight:

I could be social or I could read (I'd rather read).

 My kinda party.

 

What if I told you I actually enjoy staying at home?

 

Your introversion is a gift that doesn't need to be cured or fixed.

Introvert insight:

In my quiet, I was working something out.

- Keanu Reeves.

 

I'm constantly around people that talk a lot but say nothing.

A sad case.

- Henry Rollins.

Do you hate people?

I don't hate them ... I just feel better when they're not around.

- Charles Bukowski.

People empty me.

I have to get away to refill.

- Charles Bukowski.

Introvert insight:

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

– Liv Tyler.

I am a minimalist.

I like saying the most with the least.

– Bob Newhart.

 

I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.

– Marilynne Robinson.

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.

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:

 
Don’t underestimate me because I’m quiet.

I know more than I say, think more than I speak and observe more than you know.

– Michaela Chung.

I over-simplify and say I don’t like people,

when what I actually dislike are the surface-level interactions of most social gatherings.

– Rachel Ginder.

 

I simply don’t shine in company.

Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.

– Barbara Hambly.

 

Not all introverts are shy.

You just haven’t seen them with their close friends circle.

- The Minds Journal

 

Some people tremble at the idea of being alone.

I don’t understand.

I love my solitude.

My energy is never leeched; my feelings are never hurt.

I treat myself well, I entertain myself, but it’s peaceful.

– Sylvester McNutt.

 

The older I get,

the more I would rather sit alone,

in silence,

than with people who judge the way I live.

– Kristen Butler.

The smarter you get, the less you speak.

You grow to realize not everyone is worth confrontation.

Your time is valuable.

Your energy is priceless.

You won’t waste either on people who don’t deserve them.

- The Minds Journal