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“So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.”
― Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts
― Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts
“I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.”
― Rebecca
― Rebecca
“A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.”
― Devil in Winter
― Devil in Winter
“But she wished she had had the guts to go up to him and say hello. Or possibly break his legs, she wasn't sure which.”
― The Girl Who Played with Fire
― The Girl Who Played with Fire
“I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness."
-Edward Ferrars”
― Sense and Sensibility
-Edward Ferrars”
― Sense and Sensibility
“Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
“You're always saying people don't like you but people can't like something that's not there.”
― A Little Wanting Song
― A Little Wanting Song
“The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail forever.”
― Rebecca
― Rebecca
“We often marvel at how introverted, geeky, kid 'blossom' into secure and happy adults. We liken it to a metamorphosis. However, maybe it's not the children who change but their environments. As adults they get to select the careers, spouses, and social circles that suit them. They don't have to live in whatever culture they'er plunked into.”
― Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
― Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“Suddenly he saw himself as others in the crowd must surely see him; a silent, solitary figure, standing apart from the rest. He looked out at the hoardes of singing, laughing people and felt more alone than he'd ever felt in his life. Was this how it was going to be then? Was this who he was? A man apart from his fellows, making the journey through life alone?”
― The Other Side of the Bridge
― The Other Side of the Bridge
“Into the dark night
Resignedly I go,
I am not so afraid of the dark night
As the friends I do not know,
I do not fear the night above
As I fear the friends below.”
― Selected Poems of Stevie Smith
Resignedly I go,
I am not so afraid of the dark night
As the friends I do not know,
I do not fear the night above
As I fear the friends below.”
― Selected Poems of Stevie Smith
“His shyness was quickly mistaken for arrogant aloofness, and his schoolmates began to shun him which simply added to his shyness.”
― Summertime and Short Stories
― Summertime and Short Stories
“Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly.”
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“The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.”
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“I had taken the photograph from afar (distance being the basic glitch in our relationship), using my Nikon and zoom lens while hiding behind a fake marble pillar. I was hiding because if he knew I'd been secretly photographing him for all these months he would think I was immature, neurotic and obsessive.
I'm not.
I'm an artist.
Artists are always misunderstood.(Thwonk)”
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I'm not.
I'm an artist.
Artists are always misunderstood.(Thwonk)”
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“Leah looked at her parents, lost in their own fantasies, and decided that the three of them were a pretty pathetic family - but she wasn't sure who was more pathetic: the dateless girl spending the night of the big dance by herself in her bedroom, or the parents who foolishly believed a boy would arrive on their doorstep with flowers, a limo, and a promise to rescue their daughter from her solitude.”
― Leah
― Leah
“We met a great many other interesting people, among them Lewis Carroll, author of the immortal "Alice"--but he was only interesting to look at, for he was the silliest and shyest full-grown man I have ever met except "Uncle Remus.”
― Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition
― Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition
“It seemed incredible to me now that I had never understood. I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth. This was what I had done. I had built up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the truth.”
― Rebecca
― Rebecca
“The misfortune of solitary and timid people - who are timid from self-consciousness - is just that, though they have eyes and indeed open them wide, they see nothing, or see everything in a false light, as though through coloured spectacles.”
― Diary of a Superfluous Man
― Diary of a Superfluous Man
“I almost tell him that I'd never be able to do something like that, just take out my instrument and begin playing on a street corner. But it feels to personal. Yes, I'm shy, but why bring it to his attention? I'm too shy to talk about how shy I am.”
― Things Hoped For
― Things Hoped For
“She had spoken it; but she trembled when it was done, conscious that her words were listened to, and daring not even to try to observe their effect.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
“It's tricky being shy. You blame yourself for it, and other people blame you too.”
― The Slightly Alarming Tale of the Whispering Wars
― The Slightly Alarming Tale of the Whispering Wars
“His pleasure at seeing me was so genuine, so unmistakable, that even I, with my inbred suspicions, lost all fear.”
― Reunion
― Reunion
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