Shyness Quotes

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.

~ Daphne Du Maurier

The love of books was an instant connection, and a true boon for a girl who tended toward shyness, because it was a source of endless conversation.

~ Tessa Dare

Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.

~ Criss Jami

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.

~ Daphne Du Maurier

What he feared the most was that all this hiding had made it impossible for him to ever be found again.

~ John Corey Whaley

Call it anything else if you will—fear, anxiety, nervousness, sweating—but “shyness” is the historic word for it.

~ Richard N. Bolles

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

~ Kamand Kojouri

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 aboveAs I fear the friends below.

~ Stevie Smith

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Well, we never expected this! they all say. No one liked her. They all said she was pretentious, awkward, difficult to approach, prickly, too fond of her tales, haughty, prone to versifying, disdainful, cantankerous, and scornful. But when you meet her, she is strangely meek, a completely different person altogether!How embarrassing! Do they really look upon me as a dull thing, I wonder? But I am what I am.

~ Murasaki Shikibu

Don’t feel shy—kiss. Kiss just to feel the joy of life and to get lost in the beauty of love.

~ Debasish Mridha

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There's a difference between disclosing that which is only your business and hiding away from the world and not seeing, shining and sharing your magic.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

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.

~ J.m. Reep

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

~ Dejan Stojanovic

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.

~ Stieg Larsson

feeling shy is simply replacing courage with the feeling and fear of how others will perceive or what they will say about us after and act. Courage dares regardless

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

~ Muse

If you love sex, let it be known. You don’t have to walk around downtown naked or have some flyers printed up, but definitely don’t be shy about your love (or obsession) for sex.

~ Roberto Hogue

Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.

~ Penelope Keith

Friends are a wonderful thing. They won't make you feel like a nothing.

~ Justine Hail

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

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

~ Sylvia Plath

I realised I really was shy. And once I was in it, I couldn't escape. I'd go to talk and find my face was made of cement. Nothing would come out. On winter days, I'd feel myself turning grey at the edges and fading into the walls.Was this defensive strategy? It was paralysing. And it went on for years.

~ Janet E. Cameron

She loved sinking into her bed on evenings like this, but apparently she shouldn't, because it worried her aunts, who thought she ought to be out dancing. It worried her a little bit, too, because what if they were right, and because sometimes a great loneliness welled up in her and threatened all the dams she built to hold it back. You couldn't cure loneliness by wallowing in it, up above the world, on an island removed from everything. She knew that. But she had such a hard time with all the cures. They seemed rough and brusque and brutal, as if they abused her skin with a pot scrubber . . . forcing herself into a mass of people, a stranger among strangers. . . . But it was much more tempting to curl up with a book under her thick white comforter.Still, sometimes after she curled up, she regretted her lack of courage and felt bleakly l

~ Laura Florand

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The comedy in our lives was those first few weeks we lived together in Paris: Our bodies desired one another, our souls opened for one another. We experienced all of the happiness and anguish of first love. Those first few weeks in Paris, we barely touched lips; yet the few times we did, it had the force of a collision of stars.

~ Roman Payne

Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The idea that you are not good enough and that people will not like you is something that has been ingrained into your mind over many years. You have hundreds of experiences that you can call up as evidence of the fact that people will not like you -- and that things will not turn out well. These ideas are incredibly convincing. They compel us to hesitate, to shy away, and to avoid the situations -- and people -- that we find frightening. This sets up a reinforcing cycle, where we avoid reaching out, don't get good responses from others as a result, and then gain further evidence that we are not worthy. In order to truly overcome your social anxiety at a deep, gut level, you must repeatedly take bold action. It is only through trying something new, and with a different perspective, that you learn to see the world and the people around you in a different light.

~ Aziz Gazipura

So, what's up with you and Damian? Helena

~ Lisa Ann Sandell

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

~ Amit Kalantri

Silence has always been my default mode—my best defense against the rest of the world.

~ Matthew Quick

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

~ Will Advise

Introverts may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. They tend to dislike conflict. Many have a horror of small talk, but enjoy deep discussions.

~ Susan Cain

One of the most dangerous of literary ventures is the little, shy, unimportant heroine whom none of the other characters value. The danger is that your readers may agree with the other characters.

~ C.s. Lewis

There were other things,too, to ask him. Always she tries to be less forward. Always she tried to find the right thing to say and didn't trust the etiquette pendulum swinging in her head, so she simply said nothing, which was perceived either as painful shyness of haughtiness. Dasha never had that problem. She just said the first thing that came into her head. Tatiana knew she needed to rust her inner voice more. It was certainly loud enough

~ Paullina Simons

I was on the shy side at school (one school report called me ‘diffident’) and Braefield had added a special timidity, but when I had a natural wonder... I lost all my diffidence, and freely approached others, all my fear forgotten.

~ Oliver Sacks

My days of torment were over, but the damage was done. I conflated the bullies and my bathroom accidents with an inchoate sense that something was wrong with me. I broadcast my sense of otherness through my slumped posture, downcast expression, and extreme timidity. Kids at school called weird so often that after a while I believed them. I hid myself behind a curtain of tangled hair.

~ Alysia Abbott