1. “I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.” ― Audrey Hepburn
2. “People empty me. I have to get away to refill.” ― C. Bukowski
3. “I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.” ― ~Bob Newhart
4. “You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.” ― Stephen Chbosky
5. “Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.” ― Plato
6. “I was just confused about why I was feeling overwhelmed all the time and trying to adjust to having people work for me. Surprisingly, I think if you’re known on the Internet, you’re probably an introvert.” ― Felicia Day
7. “After an hour or two of being socially on, we introverts need to turn off and recharge … This isn’t antisocial. It isn’t a sign of depression.” ― Jonathan Rauch
8. “Please kindly go away, I’m introverting.” ― Beth Buelow, The Introvert Entrepreneur
9. “Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.” ― Maya Angelou
10. “Let’s clear one thing up: Introverts do not hate small talk because we dislike people. We hate small talk because we hate the barrier it creates between people.” ― Laurie Helgoe
11. “Everyone shines, given the right lighting.” ― Susan Cain
12. “I’m very picky with whom I give my energy to. I prefer to reserve my time, intensity and spirit exclusively to those who reflect sincerity.” ― Dau Voire
13. “Introverts live in two worlds: We visit the world of people, but solitude and the inner world will always be our home.” ― Jenn Granneman
14. “Whatever kind of introvert you are, some people will find you ‘too much’ in some ways and ‘not enough’ in others.” ― Laurie Helgoe
15. “Stay true to your own nature. If you like to do things in a slow and steady way, don’t let others make you feel as if you have to race. If you enjoy depth, don’t force yourself to seek breadth.” ― Susan Cain
16. “Introverts are word economists in a society suffering from verbal diarrhea.” ― Michaela Chung
17. “Introverts crave meaning so party chitchat feels like sandpaper to our psyche.” ― Diane Cameron
18. “The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some it’s a Broadway spotlight, for others, a lamplit desk.” ― Susan Cain
19. “Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.” ― William S. Boroughs
20. “Quiet people have the loudest minds.” ― Stephen Hawking
21. “Introvert conversations are like jazz. Each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo.” ― Laurie Helgoe
22. “I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.” ― Laurie Helgoe
23. “I was never less alone than when by myself.” ― Edward Gibbon
24. “Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.” ― Mary Sarton
25. “Silence is not empty. It’s full of answers.” ― Unknown
26. “Don’t think of introversion as something that needs to be cured… Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you’re supposed to.” ― Susan Cain
27. “When you’re an introvert like me and you’ve been lonely for a while, and then you find someone who understands you, you become really attached to them. It’s a real release.” ― Lana Del Rey
28. “Never assume quiet is weak and loud is strong.” ― Unknown
29. “There’s zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.” ― ~Susan Cain
30. “Silence is a source of great strength.” ― Lao Tzu
31. “I want to be alone… with someone else who wants to be alone.” ― – Dimitri Zaik.
32. “The day I began to live is the day I discovered being an introvert was awesome.” ― Maxime Lagacé
33. “Silence is beautiful, not awkward. The human tendency to be afraid of something beautiful is awkward.” ― Elliot Kay
34. “The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.” ― Aldous Huxley
35. “What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were more, not fewer reflective types in the world.” ― ~Susan Cain
36. “Don’t think of introversion as something that needs to be cured…Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you’re supposed to.”~ Susan Cain
37. “In terms of, like, instant relief, canceling plans is like heroin.” ― ~John Mulaney
38. “My imagination functions much better when I don’t have to speak to people.” ― Patricia Highsmith
39. “Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.” ― Albert Einstein
40. “In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.” ― Rollo May
41. “The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.” ― Shannon L. Alder
42. “I think a lot, but I don’t say much.” ― Anne Frank
43. “An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.” ― Walter Bagehot
44. “I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but like everybody else, it must be in my own way.” ― Jane Austen
45. “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.” ― Charles Bukowski
46. “Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren’t a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.” ― Cheryl Strayed
47. “The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke
48. “Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.” ― Criss Jami
49. “A good rule of thumb is that any environment that consistently leaves you feeling bad about who you are is the wrong environment.” ― Laurie Helgoe
50. “I talked to a calzone for fifteen minutes last night before I realized it was just an introverted pizza. I wish all my acquaintances were so tasty. ” ~ Jarod Kintz
51. “I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.” ― Henry David Thoreau
52. “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 Coelho
53. “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
54. “Your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke
55. “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.” ― ~Anais Nin
56. “Please kindly go away, I’m introverting.” ― Beth Buelow, The Introvert Entrepreneur
57. “One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.” ― Gary Mark Gilmore
58. “A wise man once said nothing.” ― Proverb
59. “Live your life the way you want, not the way society tells you.” ― Maxime Lagacé
