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:

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:

Introverts are word economists in a society suffering from verbal diarrhea.

– Michaela Chung.

I’m self-sufficient.
I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily.
When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.

– Bjork.
 
Though introverts are drained by interaction, we can take immense pleasure in watching the scene around us.

– Laurie Helgoe.

I'll read my books and I'll drink coffee and I'll listen to music, and I'll bolt the door.

– J. D. Salinger.

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:

... 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 hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

- Rainer Maria Rilke.

Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.

- Naomi Judd.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

- Albert Einstein.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

- Pablo Picasso.

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:

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 nourish 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.

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.

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.