Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

Shyness is a curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people at any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look down.

I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult not going places.

I was just painfully shy. I couldn't talk to anyone. Going up in front of class, I would have to mentally prepare myself to raise my hand.

It’s funny—when people call you “shy,” they usually smile. Like it’s cute, some funny little habit you’ll grow out of when you’re older, like the gaps in your grin when your baby teeth fall out. If they knew how it felt—really being shy, not just unsure at first—they wouldn’t smile. Not if they knew how the feeling knots up your stomach or makes your palms sweat or robs you of the ability to say anything that makes sense. It’s not cute at all.

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 never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.

I get butterflies before I go out to say hello at a party.

I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.

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.

I'm not good at interacting with people and am terrified to get onstage, so I just go up there, freak out and, most of the time, pack up and go home immediately after.

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

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

I have met a couple of six-year-olds who were apparently quite excited to meet me - before they actually met me. And when they actually met me they ran behind their parents' legs and cowered for shelter.

I was painfully shy as a child.

Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.

I was very shy. It was kind of scary to meet new people.

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

I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.

People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.

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

I'm not too good when exposed to people

I'm shy. I'm not sociable. I'm very insecure.

I've been shy twice. Once when I saw Matthew Bomer and once when I saw Adam Levine. I couldn't say anything, literally.

I'm quite shy, so if there's a guy I like, I actually ignore him because I can't speak to him. I get all red and sweaty, and it's embarrassing.

I really hate being recognised. I'm quite a shy person, and I'm not very good at talking to strangers. So when people come up to me in the street, I just find it quite awkward. I don't really know what to say to them.