17 Quotes Only Introverts Will Deeply Understand

17 quotes

Introverts have different minds, different hearts. Here are some quotes that only those rare, kindred souls, can relate to.

“The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person's solitude.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, goodreads.com

Tagged: Introvert

“Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.”

— Susan Cain, goodreads.com

Tagged: An Introverted Mind

“Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you're told that you're "in your head too much", a phrase that's of…”

— Susan Cain, goodreads.com

Tagged: Introvert

“We can't underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don't, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams.”

— Jewel, pinterest.com

Tagged: An Introverted Mind

“I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.”

— Virginia Woolf, goodreads.com

Tagged: Introvert

“Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full of people when someon…”

— Norton Juster, goodreads.com

Tagged: An Introverted Mind

“I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.”

— Albert Camus, goodreads.com

Tagged: An Introverted Mind

“Beware of those that seek constant crowds. They are nothing alone.’”

— Charles Bukowski, poemhunter.com

Tagged: An Introverted Mind

“Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn’t have to be a walk during which…”

— Albert Camus, goodreads.com

Tagged: An Introverted Mind

“Oh the torture of never being left alone! I find it impossible to disentangle myself from those instincts, affections, passions, attachments…which bound me…from the first moment of consciousness to other people. I need solitude; I need to feel I belong to myself.’”

— Virginia Woolf, amazon.ca

Tagged: An Introverted Mind

“There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.”

— Bjork, amazon.com

Tagged: Introvert

“We are, on earth, two distinct races. Those who have need of others, whom others amuse, engage soothe, whom solitude harasses, pains, stupefies, like the movement of a terrible glacier or the traversing of the desert; and those, on the contrary, whom others weary, tire, bore, silently torture, whom…”

— Guy de Maupassant, goodreads.com

Tagged: An Introverted Mind

“Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense. Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.”

— Tom Robbins, goodreads.com

Tagged: Introvert

“When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability with nobody. But all of this vanishes when I face someone in the flesh: I lose my intelligence, I can no longer speak, and after half an hour I just feel tired. Talki…”

— Fernando Pessoa, goodreads.com

Tagged: Introvert

“I can't think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there's no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each…”

— Franz Kafka, goodreads.com

Tagged: An Introverted Mind

“We shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you m…”

— Hunter S. Thompson, goodreads.com

Tagged: An Introverted Mind

“I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world, over time, little by little. And when I’m inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved.”

— Haruki Murakami, goodreads.com

Tagged: Introvert