“Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured...Spend your free the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.”— Susan Cain, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person's solitude.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, goodreads.com
“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.”— Susan Cain, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“Sensitive souls don’t have it easy in this cruel world. They feel like their souls are getting trampled on in so many ways. That’s why you see their eyes light up when they can caress a face or an animal, or breathe in the scent of a flower.”— Sereno Sky, amazon.com
“The crowd is his element, as the air is that of birds and water of fishes. His passion and his profession are to become one flesh with the crowd. For the perfect flâneur, for the passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude, amid the ebb and flow of moveme…”— Charles Baudelaire, amazon.ca