Enneagram 5 Quotes

“Fives have a limited, measured amount of energy for every day so they are careful about what they offer to others and when. It is extremely brave of them to show up for relationships because it costs them more than any other number.”
― Suzanne Stabile, The Path Between Us: An Enneagram Journey to Healthy Relationships

“In elementary school we had to write in our yellow journals daily. One day we were doing silent reading while the teacher graded our yellow journals in the back. I heard my name, turned to see her lifting my journal up in the air, pages loosely flapping. Chanel, there is no such thing as January 42! I had written beyond January 31...all the way up to January 42. The whole class was laughing, and I grew hot with shame. There were obvious rules in the world I had missed. What other things didn't I know? Now the judge was dangling my statement in the air, everyone laughing, my face burning. January has thirty-one days, rapists get three months; everyone in the world knew this, except me.”
― Chanel Miller , Know My Name

“For a Five, feelings are a thing to be solved rather than experienced.”
― Hannah Paasch, Millenneagram: The Enneagram Guide for Discovering Your Truest, Baddest Self – An Irreverent Modern Path to Authentic Transformation

“It was true that she didn't have many friends, not of the flesh-and-blood variety, but the fact did not upset her. It was tiring, all that smiling and sharing and speculating about the weather, and she always left a gathering, no matter how intimate, feeling depleted, as if she'd accidentally left behind some vital layers of herself she'd never get back.”
― Kate Morton, The Clockmaker's Daughter