45 Quotes About Social Anxiety and Shyness | Feeling Anxious Quotes

“One way to handle social anxiety is to pretend you are a ghost and people are staring at you because they have a gift they never asked for.” Aparna Nancherla

“There’s just so much going on in my mind that sometimes I can’t keep up with what’s going on around me.”

“I’m a lonely person at heart, I need people, but my social anxiety prevents me from being happy.

“L’enfer, c’est les autres [Hell is other people].” Sartre

“Care about what other people think, and you will always be their prisoner.” Lao-Tze

“I am exhausted from trying to be stronger than I feel.” Unknown

“I’m telling you, anxiety is always feeling like something is out of place, and when you can’t find what it is – you start to think it’s you.” Rachel H

“You’re going to be okay. Breathe and remember that you’ve been in this place before.” Unknown

“Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.” Ray Bradbury

“What other people think of me is none of my business.” Wayne Dyer

“You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“I’ve spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough, they won’t leave and fearing that it’s a matter of time before they figure me out and go.” Shauna Niequist

“All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest.” Osamu Dazai

“I realized that bullying never has to do with you. It’s the bully who’s insecure.” Shannon Ashley Garcia Mitchell

“Go easy on yourself. Whatever you do today, let it be enough.” Unknown

“Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial.” Fernando Pessoa

“He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people’s opinions and feelings concerning himself…” George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

“When he is in the room with other persons, speech stops, as if there were a corpse in the apartment.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It’s almost a fear of what you’re capable of.” Rhys Ifans

“Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.” Jonathan Katz

“The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.” Mignon McLaughlin

“Shrinking in a corner, | pressed into the wall; | do they know I’m present, | am I here at all?” Lang Leav, ‘Love & Misadventure’

“Shyness is about the fear of social judgments – at a job interview or a party, you might be excessively worried about what people think of you. Whereas an introvert might not feel any of those things at all, they simply have the preference to be in a quieter setting.” Susan Cain

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.” Albert Camus

“You are not weak. People like us, we’re brave. We’re the ones who get up and face our worst fears every day. We keep fighting.” Jen Wilde

“The shy and the extroverted have this in common – that they both fancy they are the center of attention.” Robert Breault

“Shyness in the young may be charming to look at but is painful to the one who suffers it.” Dorothy Whipple, ‘Because Of The Lockwoods’.

“I’m shy, but I’m not clinically shy. I don’t have a social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness.” Samantha Bee

“She didn’t understand how other people did it, how they just strolled right up to strangers and started conversations… She wasn’t shy, not exactly. She was afraid.” Katie Cotugno

“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

“I have social anxiety. It’s easier up on stage because there’s security in being there. When I’m off stage, I’m trying not to be a manic freak. I’m quite shy.” Sia Furler

“I need you to love me a little bit harder today.” Unknown

“Let’s just say, my anxieties have anxieties.” Unknown

It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should I talk about? How should I say it? – I don’t know.” Osamu Dazai

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” Seneca

“I don’t like going out. I’m more of a watch TV, hang out, Netflix kind of guy. I don’t like leaving; I don’t like talking to people. It gives me anxiety.” Pete Davidson

“Just because I can’t explain the feelings causing my anxiety doesn’t make them less valid.” Lauren Elizabeth

“It’s sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.” Amanda Seyfried

“I don’t think anyone could ever criticize me more severely than the way I viciously criticize myself.” Unknown

“I don’t struggle with anxiety. I’m actually pretty good at it.” Unknown

“To tell you the truth, I’ve just been avoiding everything.” Stephen Chbosky

“This is one of the most frustrating things about having an anxiety disorder; knowing as you’re freaking out that there’s no reason to be freaked out, but lacking the ability to shut the emotion down.” Unknown

“I think too much. I think ahead, I think behind, I think sideways, I think it all. If it exists, I’ve thought of it!” Unknown

“I don’t think people understand how difficult it is to explain what’s going on in your head when you don’t even understand it yourself.” Unknown

“I learned years ago that it’s okay to do this. To seek out small spaces for me, to stop and imagine myself alone. People are too much sometimes. Friends, acquaintances, enemies, strangers. It doesn’t matter; they all crowd. Even if they’re all the way across the room, they crowd. I take a moment of silence and think: I am here. I am okay.” Francesca Zappia