I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they are designed to lock the world out. And the oddity is that either way, I am a prisoner who has sentenced himself to a prison within which I do not belong.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Fear Fearful Hiding Imprisonment Incarcerate Incarceration Isolate Isolation Lock Panic Prison Protect Protection Recluse Retreat Seclude Shelter Withdraw Withdrawn World

There is no need searching for love, it cannot be found-it happens!

~ Itohan Eghide

Itohan Eghide Calm Down Careless Chances Each Other Found Friendship Happen I Love You Love Love Happens Love Within Loving Someone Meeting Patience Profound Relationships Retreat Soft Somewhere Soulmate Spontaneity Spontaneous Struggle Together True Love Withdrawn

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana Aggravating Annoy Annoying Aphorism Aphorisms Aphorist Aphorists Aplomb Assertive Assertiveness Assured At Ease Bashful Bashfulness Boldness Bothersome Can Do Confident Coolheaded Courage Coyness Cursed Demureness Diffidence Diffident Embarrassed Embarrassment Exasperating Extrovert Extroverted Farouche Funny Galling Girl Girls Hilarious Humor Humorous Humour Imperturbable Infuriating Inhibited Insecure Introversion Introvert Introverted Irksome Irritate Irritating Irritation Joke Jokes Lack Of Confidence Levelheaded Maddening Man Men Mettle Mousiness Mousy Nerve Nervous Nettlesome Obnoxious Pesky Phlegm Phlegmatic Poise Poised Positive Quotations Quotes Repressed Reserve Reserved Reservedness Reticence Reticent Retiring Satire Self Assurance Self Assured Self Confidence Self Confident Self Conscious Self Consciousness Self Effacing Self Possessed Self Possession Self Reliant Sheepish Sheepishness Shy Shyness Timid Timidity Timidness Timorous Timorousness Tiresome Together Troublesome Trying Unconfident Unperturbed Unruffled Vexatious Vexing Withdrawn

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana Alcohol Alcohol Abuse Alcohol Addiction Alcoholic Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholism Bashful Diffident Embarrassed Escape Evade Farouche Inhibited Insecure Introverted Mousy Nervous Opium Opium Of The People Pain Problem Problems Repressed Reserved Reticent Retiring Self Consciousness Self Effacing Sheepish Shy Shyness Suffering Timid Timorous Unconfident Vehicle Vehicles Withdrawn

I know an alcoholic is the worse, but sometimes I wonder if it's better to have a drinking father that lives at home, or a drinking father, that never comes around.

~ Anthony Liccione

Anthony Liccione Absence Absorbed Acceptance Addiction Alcoholic Beer Dead Beat Distracted Drinking Family Father Fatherly Figure Gone Inattentive Not Paying Attention Pain Preoccupied Rejection Role Model Substance Abuse Unknown Vague Withdrawn Worse

I don't purchase people with money, or hiss like a snake to attract their attention, all i do is to rest on my couch because i have the conviction that no human can progress with an exception without a power behind.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Michael Bassey Johnson Attraction Aura Beg Beggar Beggars Belief Believe In Yourself Breakthrough Condescend Condescending Condescension Content Contented Conviction Equanimity Excel Fame Hiss Honor Honour Humility Individuality Meek Michael Bassey Johnson Money Much Ado About Nothing Mystic Popularity Power Behind Pride Progress Reserved Self Reliance Self Respect Snake Unpopularity Withdrawal Withdrawn

Slowly, inch by inch, I felt myself recovering. After a few weeks, the darkness began to recede; my appetite for life returned. Haven was wonderful; she understood and nursed me through these weeks until I felt strong enough to go out in public, to get on my bike again.

~ Tyler Hamilton

Tyler Hamilton Depression Depression Quotes Depression Recovery Mental Illness Recovery Withdrawn

I am two people. One goes through the motions, rolling from one thing to the next; the other is withdrawn, watching a complete stranger.

~ Doug Cooper

Doug Cooper Duality Going Through The Motions Identity Outside In Stranger Withdrawn

Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana Affable Alone Amicable Anchoress Anchorite Anthropocentric Anthropocentrism Antisocial Approachable Ascetic By Oneself Chummy Cloistered Clubby Communicative Companionable Companionless Convivial Cordial Eremite Extrovert Forthcoming Friendless Friendly Genial Gregarious Hail Fellow Well Met Hermit Hermitic Incommunicado Introvert Isolate Isolation Lone Wolf Lonely Loner Lonesome Marabout Misanthrope Misanthropy On One S Own Open Outgoing Recluse Reclusive Responsive Seclude Secluded Sociable Solitarian Solitary Solitudinarian Troglodyte Unaccompanied Unsociable Warm Withdrawn

She fails to see who I am, even, for her eyes do not, will not, take me in. Instead they transmit a powerful message. She is like a billboard flashing, starkly: 'Keep Out'.

~ Carol Lee

Carol Lee Emotional Disengagement Emotional Distance Ignoring People Isolation Mental Disorder Mental Illness Withdrawn