Shy Quotes

She looked at him, his soft brown eyes and tall form, and contemplated raising herself on her toes and kissing his ear, or his cheek...Instead, impulsively before leaving, she reached up and smoothed his mussed hair.Mr. Bradford beamed.

~ Heather Dixon

There is a certain delightful sort of hope which the introvert can receive only by having company over...the hope that they will leave soon.

~ Criss Jami

Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.

~ Criss Jami

When they got to their hotel she went straight up to bed, but he paused to get a drink. There was, in the vestibule, a flower stall and he bought a handful of roses, stiffly wired into a bouquet, before proceeding to the oppressive gorgeousness of their bridal suite. The lift was lined with looking glass, so that as he shot upwards he got an endlessly duplicated version of himself, stout and nervous, a light cloak flung over his shoulder and flowers in his hand: an infinitely long row of gentlemen carrying offerings to an unforgiving past.

~ Margaret Kennedy

I've always been shy physically. This in part tended to keep me from rushing into things, including relationships, headlong. Not rushing headlong, though I may have wanted to, but beginning to write stories about people, I drew near slowly; noting and guessing, apprehending, hoping, drawing my eventual conclusions out of my own heart, I did venture closer to where I wanted to go.

~ Eudora Welty

When you get shy, you’re simply thinking of yourself. Stop it. Step out of yourself.

~ Kamand Kojouri

I am a deeply uncertain individual. I often find myself acting like a fool to make the people around me laugh. When they’re laughing, they’re not watching me quite as closely. I smile to put people at ease. But what if I opened my mouth one day, spoke my actual thoughts, and the people glared at my opinions? What if they thought me disgusting or frightening or ugly because of my words? Would you keep your lips shut for the rest of your life to not face that judgment? Just for the sake of someone else’s comfort? For these strangers, who I will never know? If I can’t speak then I’ll write. These strangers, whose opinions crush me, will be forced to listen. Because when they read my words those words will make a home within their heads. They may even end up using my own opinions against me. But at least I’ll be hidden behind the pages of a book.

~ F.k. Preston

He was rather clumsy and shy and looked as if he'd spent the last ten years of his life locked up in a library - hardly the kind of man any girl your age dreams of ...

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You might be an introvert if you were ready to go home before you left the house.

~ Criss Jami

Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It's not the end if you're too shy to say 'I love you.' It's only the beginning, because you're first meant to show it anyway.

~ Criss Jami

A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Once bitten twice shy? Sure, but... why not get a bigger dog and bite them back?

~ A.a. Bell

My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all.

~ Criss Jami

A Coy Aversion...a fluttertoo shyto be seen...

~ Muse

Life occasionally humbles us by making us turned on by someone whom we turn off.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to be accepted and liked; they do seem most guarded, but only by their own hands: as compared to the populace, they are naked.

~ Criss Jami

Half of me is filled with bursting words and half of me is painfully shy. I crave solitude yet also crave people. I want to pour life and love into everything yet also nurture my self-care and go gently. I want to live within the rush of primal, intuitive decision, yet also wish to sit and contemplate. This is the messiness of life - that we all carry multitudes, so must sit with the shifts. We are complicated creatures, and ultimately, the balance comes from this understanding. Be water. Flowing, flexible and soft. Subtly powerful and open. Wild and serene. Able to accept all changes, yet still led by the pull of steady tides. It is enough.

~ Victoria Erickson

...words are so strong and I am so timid - my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint ...

~ John Geddes

Silence might be a shout for the truth. It might be the speech that someday, in its truest, most uncontaminated, unadulterated state, all will be revealed.

~ Criss Jami

The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it's a secret.

~ Criss Jami

Never forget that when connections get destroyed by means of bad communication, it's good communication that resolves them. Don't be shy to say I am sorry and please forgive me. That's a good communication!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It's not that easy to find someone I can relate to. I'm tough to crack because I'm shy.

~ Kristin Kreuk

Be bold and never feel shy to consult people. You may appear like a stupid person for few minutes if you ask questions, but you are likely to be a fool forever if you don’t ask at all.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Don't be shy to say I am sorry; Never feel too big to say Please forgive me; Don't think it's unnecessary to say thank you; Never feel bad to admit I am wrong! That's a good tactics is communication!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Perhaps a seemingly dull, boring person is not a person who lacks personality, but rather a person with so much personality most other things bore them.

~ Criss Jami

If you want to go to a place you have never been before, you have to ask questions you have never asked before. Don't feel shy to ask questions about things you don't know!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

In her experience, groups of friends like that just didn't open up to include underage, undersized geeks like her. They hadn't sounded mean, they just sounded — self-confident. Something she wasn't.

~ Rachel Caine

Being shy is a symptom of a low self-esteem.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Even painfully shy and awkward people are not painfully shy or awkward when they are alone. The way to access this natural, comfortable alone-self when you are with others is by choosing to forbid yourself to wonder what they are thinking. Instead, force yourself to exist in the instant, then take it- and give it- as it comes.

~ Augusten Burroughs

Infants never learn to soothe themselves to sleep. They learn, abandoned in seclusion, that no matter the volume of their despondence, no matter the force of their tears, when they are alone and frightened, no-one will ever come to their rescue. Infants do not soothe themselves. They merely surrender. And it is caged in their cribs where the infants learn, in the face of their demons, to remain silent and submitting.

~ C. Sean Mcgee

Your shyness alone will bring you more emotional and material losses than all of your other negative attributes.

~ Amit Kalantri

Is it ok to sometimes be shy?Yes, of course. The point is,that being that way all the time and using it as an excuse to never be the opposite of shy,it's not good. It's not good for your life, your interactions,strenght of character and how diverse and interesting you can be. You are MORE than shy. Don't be labeled, be what you wanna be in any given moment. And DO what WORKS, not what you think you are.

~ Matthew Hussey

Fluttershyes are like regular shyes, only shinier, and, apparently - also shyer. Whenever petted - they don't flutter, but run away instead.

~ Will Advise

It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure) surrender he continues to serve and carry out petty orders in loyal acquiescence.

~ Criss Jami

The introvert's anthem for not wanting to hang out is 'It's not you, it's me.

~ Criss Jami

Shy, what is it? I say it is intrigued by pride and hesitated by a feeling of being unworthy.

~ Ferrrer Joey Palomar Fesico

The writer in her went silent and hid when her revealing words were wide-spread read.

~ Donna Lynn Hope