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

Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.

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.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

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

Leah looked at her parents, lost in their own fantasies, and decided that the three of them were a pretty pathetic family – but she wasn’t sure who was more pathetic: the dateless girl spending...

The ones who stay unnoticed often see the most. They live out other people’s lives, since their own are so unremarkable…

I can do anything you want me to do so long as I don’t have to speak.

Being shy is a symptom of a low self-esteem.

Finally, he smiled, and although his smile was bumpy because some of his teeth were jagged and broken, it was a warming, infectious smile that was reflected in his eyes. It made her smile widely...

Introverts may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and...

So, what’s up with you and Damian?” Helena asks.”What do you mean?” I can feel the hear of a blush coloring on my cheeks. I can’t ever seem to not show how I feel. It’s...

Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly.

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...

You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.

Silence has always been my default mode—my best defense against the rest of the world.

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....

Clothes are nothing more than a fig leaf. And the bodies beneath are just another layer of clothing, an outfit of flesh with an impractically thin leather exterior, in various shades of pink, yellow and...

Libby wasn’t a big talker – Michelle and Debby seemed to hog all her words. She made pronouncements: I like ponies. I hate spaghetti. I hate you. Like her mother, she had no poker face....

A veces cuando me preocupa ser simpático resulto inquietante.

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.

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

The comedy in our lives was those first few weeks we lived together in Paris: Our bodies desired one another, our souls opened for one another. We experienced all of the happiness and anguish of...

A bold slave is more powerful than a timid king

She loved sinking into her bed on evenings like this, but apparently she shouldn’t, because it worried her aunts, who thought she ought to be out dancing. It worried her a little bit, too, because...

This helps (the students) in getting over their shyness of talking to adults and (shows them) how they need to open up.

Into the dark night Resignedly I go, I am not so afraid of the dark night As the friends I do not know,I do not fear the night aboveAs I fear the friends below.

Be bold and never feel shy to consult people. You may appear like a stupid person for few minutes if you ask questions; but you are likely to be a fool forever if you don’t...

It’s not that easy to find someone I can relate to. I’m tough to crack because I’m shy.

My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.

But she wished she had had the guts to go up to him and say hello. Or possibly break his legs, she wasn’t sure which.

Shyness displays itself differently in me. I think it’s more an awkwardness.

Well, we never expected this!” they all say. “No one liked her. They all said she was pretentious, awkward, difficult to approach, prickly, too fond of her tales, haughty, prone to versifying, disdainful, cantankerous, and...

Reading his autobiography many years later, I was astonished to find that Edward since boyhood had—not unlike Isaiah Berlin—often felt himself ungainly and ill-favored and awkward in bearing. He had always seemed to me quite...

So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.”(Initiation)

En el fondo, seguía siendo, y siempre sería, una niña tímida que sólo se sentía a gusto en una soledad montaraz.

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

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...

Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.

Deep rivers run quiet.

A Coy Aversion…a fluttertoo shyto be seen…

The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I...

If you love sex, let it be known. You don’t have to walk around downtown naked or have some flyers printed up, but definitely don’t be shy about your love (or obsession) for sex.

feeling shy is simply replacing courage with the feeling and fear of how others will perceive or what they will say about us after and act. Courage dares regardless