Shyness Quotes

From the deepest silence between us arose uncertain, utterly vague and, as it were, whispered varieties on the theme ‘smile’.

~ Nicola Lecca

It's better to dance like a fool, than to stand around like an idiot.

~ Oliver Gaspirtz

When he was younger, he used the slightest opportunity to slip away from people, without his being able to understand very clearly why he did so: a longing to break free and to breathe in the fresh air?

~ Patrick Modiano

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

~ Fiona Apple

People like you don’t go mad, Vi. They’re quiet on the outside and loud on the inside and sane as the day is long

~ April Genevieve Tucholke

It was a relief to inhabit someone else's life for a while, to get her personal issues for a brief respite. In a play, she knew exactly how all her character's problems would be resolved. No matter how the cast performed, the end turned out the same. No questions, no worries, no unknowns.

~ Alexandra Robbins

I have always tried to avoid talking to pretty girls, because pretty girls have a vicious effect on me in which every part of my brain is shut down except for the part that says unbelievably stupid things and the part that is aware that I am saying unbelievably stupid things.

~ David Foster Wallace

...I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon...

~ John Geddes

For a moment, I tried to see myself through the eyes of the girl with the black hair, or even the boy in the cowboy hat, studying my features for a vibration under the skin. The effort was visible in my face, and I felt ashamed. No wonder the boy had seemed disgusted: He must have seen the longing in me. Seen how my face was blatant with need, like an orphan's empty dish. And that was the difference between me and the black-haired girl- her face answered all it's own questions.

~ Emma Cline

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.

~ Philip G. Zimbardo

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.

~ Lisa Kleypas