14 Spot-On Quotes For Introverts

My second Thought Catalog article.  Link to site is here.

1.

Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.

- Criss Jami, Killosophy

2.

There’s a difference between preferring books to parties and preferring sixteen cats to seeing the light of day.

– Lauren Morrill, Meant to Be

3.

Introverts treasure the close relationships they have stretched so much to make.

– Adam S. McHugh, Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture

4.

When introverts are in conflict with each other…it may require a map in order to follow all the silences, nonverbal cues and passive-aggressive behaviors!

– Adam S. McHugh

5.

The only problem with seeing people you know is that they know you.

- Brent Runyon, The Burn Journals

 6.

Inside was where she lived, physically and mentally. She resided in the horn of plenty of her own prodigious mind, fertilized by inexhaustible curiosity.

– Tim F. LaHaye, The Rising

7.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

- Steven Hawking

8.

I’ve been accused my whole life of being “too sensitive”. This actually kind of pisses me off, but maybe that’s just because I’m too sensitive.

– Sophia Dembling

9.

I was born as a forest, but I feel overwhelmed by all these trees.

- theladyfidgets

10.

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

- Audrey Hepburn

11.

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

- Rumi

12.

I think a lot, but I don’t say much.

- Anne Frank

13.

And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

- F. S. Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

 14.

Quiet is might. Solitude is strength. Introversion is power.

– Laurie Helgoe

           - J. A. Kind