25 Introvert Quotes About Enjoying Your Time Alone

Are you an introvert? Do you enjoy spending time with yourself and your own thoughts? Of course it is good to spend time with others, it can also be good to spend time alone with your thoughts without any outside noise. This time alone can be a valuable time to think, clear your head, to dream, to unwind and to recharge.

What is an introvert? Is it a loner, someone who does no enjoy the company of others? Someone who is socially awkward? Someone who is shy? Perhaps an introvert is simply a person who enjoys the pleasure of their own company?

If you are an introvert some of the quotes below will probably resonate with you.

1. Sometimes people think I’m unhappy, but I’m not. I just appreciate silence in a world that never stops talking.

2. I’m very picky with whom I give my energy to. I prefer to reserve my time, intensity and spirit exclusively to those who reflect sincerity. – Dau Voire

3. Silence is a source of great strength. – Lao Tzu

4. 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, and the sky. – Audrey Hepburn

5. Nothing can dim the light that shines from within. – Maya Angelou

6. My imagination functions much better when I don’t have to speak to people. – Patricia Highsmith

7. Quiet people have the loudest minds. – Stephen Hawking

8. I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone. – Marilynne Robinson

9. Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it. – Liv Tyler

10. My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. – Edith Sitwell

11. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. – Aristotle

12. In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone. – Rollo May

13. There’s a difference between solitude and loneliness. – Maggie Smith

14. Don’t underestimate me. I know more than I say, think more than I speak, and notice more than you realize.

15. I was never less alone than when by myself. – Edward Gibbon

16. Introverts are collectors of thoughts, and solitude is where the collection is curated and rearranged to make sense of the present and future. – Laurie Helgoe

17. Life isn’t about just talking, it’s about thinking too. – Marie Symeou

18. You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind. – Yoko Ono

19. I restore myself when I’m alone. – Marilyn Monroe

20. Without great solitude no serious work is possible. – Pablo Picasso

21. Introverts do not hate small talk because we dislike people. We hate small talk because we hate the barrier it creates between people. – Laurie Helgoe

22. What a lovely surprise to discover how unlonely being alone can be. – Ellen Burstyn

23. In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion. – Albert Camus

24. The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. Those who walk alone are likely to find themselves in places no one has ever been before. – Francis Phillip Wernig

25. Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. – Marcus Aurelius