Only in quiet waters do thing mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
Hans Margolius
It started off as a hobby. I was never one to do much fishing and hunting. On occasion I did. I was mostly a homebody with a fairy tale marriage. To tell you the truth I was an egghead growing up. I was a bookworm. I kept my head in books, a sort of introverted type person.
Gerald Pruitt
We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. But let us not imagine there is anything grand about the introvert's unhappiness.
Bertrand Russell
Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.
Helene Cixous
I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.
Audrey Hepburn
I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.
Gabriela Sabatini
I was very introverted. I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people.
Jennifer Sky
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.
Ross McDonald
I think my writing was innate. Being so painfully shy and introverted as a child, as well as an extreme thinker with a hyperactive imagination, it seems befitting. It became such a powerful passion early on in life.
Kim Elizabeth
All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.
Blaise Pascal
No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
Thomas Macaulay
I think I'm a weird combination of deeply introverted and very daring. I can feel both those things working.
Helen Hunt