F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

At times, I get very lonely because people are afraid to talk to me or don't wait for me to write a response. I'm shy and tongue-tied at times. I find it difficult to talk to people who I don't know.

I don't do well in social environments.

I am afraid I am totally hermetic to social games in general.

It is always terrible to be told to go play with people one doesn't know.

When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces. The man who'd introduced them didn't much like either of them, though he acted as if he did, anxious as he was to preserve good relations at all times. One never knew, after all, now did one now did one now did one.

I've never been a social person. When I grew up, the other girls would all be combing their hair and exchanging lipstick, and I just couldn't do that group thing.

As a human being, you know that there are some days when you'd rather not talk to anybody - but I can't really do that anymore without appearing rude.

I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me.

I've always been a geek and slightly awkward... slightly umm... I was never the cool kid at school.

Some people meet people in the grocery store, but I get my tomatoes and I'm out.

I'm not very good at parties. I'm a wallflower.

Nothing terrifies me more than being social.

I never have anything to talk about.

It wasn't easy for me to socialize with other kids when I got back from touring. I felt different. Like we all do, but I didn't feel like I got all the codes. I was a little awkward.

Cocktail parties for me can be nerve-racking. The brevity of conversations, the number of them - it's not my sweet spot.

I tended to be the nerdy kid - stood at the back, watching other people having fun - I wasn't always necessarily a big part of the fun myself.

For those of us who aren't great with people, we figure that silence is always the safest bet. If you're an introvert, you spend so much of your time wishing that other people would just shut the hell up that you figure you're doing everyone a favor.

Life is a series of embarrassing moments which leave you feeling alone in your confusion and shame

Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse.

I'm somewhat socially inept. Slide me between two strangers at any light-hearted jamboree and I'll either rock awkwardly and silently on my heels, or come out with a stone-cold conversation-killer like, "This room's quite rectangular, isn't it?" I glide through the social whirl with all the elegance of a dog in high heels

. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

I stand in the center aisle of the auditorium, a wounded zebra in a National Geographic special, looking for someone, anyone to sit next to. A predator approaches: gray jock buzz cut, whistle around a neck thicker than his head. Probably a social studies teacher, hired to coach a blood sport.

I'm a lurker and a creep. Women don't like me because I sleep standing up, like a horse.

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.

I was too shy to be around real people. It wasn't like old ladies talking to plants.