Top 71 Quotes About Being an Introvert (INSPIRING)

16 Inspirational Quotes to Help You Embrace Your Introverted Self

“I don’t believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by committee… I’m going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone… Not on a committee. Not on a team.”
Steve Wozniak

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 — 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**

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 — 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

People always tell introverts to be more talkative and leave their comfort zones, yet no one tells extroverts to shut up to make the zone comfortable.

“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here forever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”
Virginia Wolf

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 — 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**

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson — To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest **accomplishment**. – **Ralph Waldo Emerson**

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

“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

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

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 — 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

I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but like everybody else, it must be in my own way. – Jane Austen — I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly **happy**; but like everybody else, it must be in my own way. – **Jane Austen**

“Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone —that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.”
Nikola Tesla

I’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, and the sky. – Audrey Hepburn — I’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, and the sky. – **Audrey Hepburn**

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 — 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**

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 — 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**

12 Wise Quotes About Being an Introvert

“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

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

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 — 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

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

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living. – Albert Einstein — Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the **truth**. Have holy curiosity. Make your **life** worth living. – **Albert Einstein**

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 — 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

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 — 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**

Extroverts sparkle, introverts glow. Extroverts are fireworks, introverts are a fire in the hearth. – Sophia Dembling

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

People inspire you, or they drain you — pick them wisely. – Hans F. Hansen — People **inspire** you, or they drain you — pick them wisely. – Hans F. Hansen

The day I began to live is the day I discovered being an introvert was awesome. – Maxime Lagacé

Understand that half the game is keeping quiet, and carefully watching those around you. – Robert Greene — Understand that half the game is keeping quiet, and carefully watching those around you. – **Robert Greene**

11 of the Best Short Introvert Quotes

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. – Marcus Aurelius — Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. – **Marcus Aurelius**

I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone. – Marilynne Robinson

Without great solitude no serious work is possible. – Pablo Picasso — Without great **solitude** no serious work is possible. – **Pablo Picasso**

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulate the creative mind. – Albert Einstein — The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulate the **creative** mind. – **Albert Einstein**

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. – Aristotle — Knowing yourself is the beginning of all **wisdom**. – **Aristotle**

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. – Aldous Huxley

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. – Henry David Thoreau — I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. – **Henry David Thoreau**

I want to be alone… with someone else who wants to be alone. – Dimitri Zaik

The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude. – Rainer Maria Rilke — The highest form of **love** is to be the protector of another person’s **solitude**. – Rainer Maria Rilke

A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with the company. – Oscar Wilde — A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with the company. – **Oscar Wilde**

My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude. – Warsan Shire

12 Quotes About Introversion that Will Make You Think

“Deep inside, she knew who she was, and that person was smart and kind and often even funny, but somehow her personality always got lost somewhere between her heart and her mouth, and she found herself saying the wrong thing or, more often, nothing at all.”
Julia Quinn

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

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. – Ellen Burstyn

People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting. – Andy Warhol

You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind. – Yoko Ono

Silence is beautiful, not awkward. The human tendency to be afraid of something beautiful is awkward. – Elliot Kay

“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 them with, and something to judge.”
Paulo Coelho

I think a lot, but I don’t say much. – Anne Frank — I think a lot, but I don’t say much. – **Anne Frank**

Quiet people have the loudest minds. – Stephen Hawking — Quiet people have the loudest minds. – **Stephen Hawking**

“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