You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right. Rosa Parks
I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone. Marilynne Robinson
Be strong, be who you are and fight for your identity, fight for who you really are. Unknown
The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. Those who walk alone are likely to find themselves in places no one has ever been before. Francis Phillip Wernig
Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can. Susan Cain
Introverts, the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly. Susan Cain
Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity’s greatest achievements. Susan Cain
Introverts are offered keys to private gardens full of riches . To possess such a key is to tumble like Alice down her rabbit hole. She didn’t choose to go to Wonderland – but she made of it an adventure that was fresh and fantastic and very much her own. Susan Cain
Isn’t it refreshing to know that what comes perfectly natural for you is your greatest strength? Your power is in your nature. You may not think it’s a big deal that you can spend hours immersed in something that interests you — alone — but the extrovert next door has no idea how you do it. Laurie Helgoe
Being weird, independent and loving solitude are not limitations. They are my superpowers. Maxime Lagacé
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
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
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people that I feel on my own. Henry Rollins
When I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing. Mary Oliver
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. Franz Kafka
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining. Anne Lamott
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t. Eleanor Roosevelt
If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier. Sylvia Plath
So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me, because I, too, am fluent in silence. R. Arnold
Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre (Whew, that’s a hard one)
I don’t hate people, I just feel better when they aren’t around. Charles Bukowski (Another hard one)
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
I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make every hour holy. Rainer Maria Rilke
I owe my solitude to other people. Alan Watts
If you are afraid of being lonely, don’t try to be right. Jules Renard
The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all. Anneli Rufus
Deep Quotes About Introversion
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Plato
I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least. Bob Newhart
Silence is not empty. It’s full of answers. Unknown
Never assume quiet is weak and loud is strong. Unknown
The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most. Shannon L. Alder
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
Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell. Criss Jami
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
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. Walter Bagehot
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
When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying attention to me. And now see what has become of me. Albert Einstein
Solitude matters. And for some people it is the air that they breathe. Susan Cain
It’s never a good idea to organize society in a way that depletes the energy of half the population. We discovered this with women decades ago, and now it’s time to realize it with introverts. Susan Cain
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
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
Why is it that nobody understands me, yet everybody likes me? Albert Einstein
It is a strange thing to be so widely known, and yet to be so lonely. Albert Einstein
I restore myself when I’m alone. Marilyn Monroe
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. Henry David Thoreau
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. Henry David Thoreau
We need fantasy to survive because reality is too difficult. Lady Gaga
You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life. Warren Buffett
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Gustav Jung
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. Abraham Lincoln
