Quotes on Introvert

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

Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.

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.

Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

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

Evangelicalism has taken the Extrovert Ideal to its logical extreme...If you don't love Jesus out loud, then it must not be real love. It's not enough to forge your own spiritual connection to the divine; it must be displayed publicly.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

My mother was an introvert and quite religious. And we were brought up in the church. And when she learned that I wanted to act, she simply said: 'You cannot live here and do that.'

Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my willpower? The idea of a life gets in the way of my life...I dream too much, work too little.

Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.

We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within.

To be creative you must create a space for yourself where you can be undisturbed... separate from everyday concerns.

as a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house on a saturday.

...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.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

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

... all this talking, this rather liquid confessing, was something I didn't think I could ever bring myself to do. It seemed foolhardy to me, like an uncooked egg deciding to to come out of its shell: there would be a risk of spreading out too far, turning into a formless puddle.

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.