Amanda Foreman Quotes

I was nervous to even talk to other kids in my class. I would hide in my room when my parents had people over.

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

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

I was painfully shy as a child.

I was the kind of kid, I'd sit in the back row of the class with my head practically under the desk. I was incredibly afraid of people and very shy.

My day is spent hiding from people.

I usually feel that I prefer to hide from people.

I'm actually quite a shy person and it's becoming clearer to me. Sometimes I would like to disappear, maybe only for an hour.

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

I was almost tragically shy, like, clinically. I should've been admitted somewhere. I think my parents knew, but maybe they didn't think much about it. It's hard walking the Earth shy. You miss out on a lot.

My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.

When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.

I had become shy of life's bustle in my solitary retreat and was apprehensive at the thought of facing the world.

I've always been really shy. I was always afraid of any kind of confrontation.

You're always tellin' me to go out more, Go ahead, get out and see the world, But then I think, why should I? I'd rather stay home and cry.

I'm self-loathing, introverted, and neurotic.

Nothing terrifies me more than being social.

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.

Because I am basically so insecure and anxious and afraid, I never, ever in my life learned to reach out for help, ever.

I'm a sponge. I sometimes don't want to go out of my house because it's like, 'Who's going to make me cry today?'

I was really shy and kept to the theater department. I was keeping my eyes down when I walked through the halls. So, no nemesis. Not in high school, anyway.

I did not love going out to parties or even get-togethers, really - I went to the movies, which, if you think about it, is an isolating experience anyway - and this was because I had anxiety about interacting with people.

As a child, I was afraid of everything. My parents were shy, the kind of people for whom it is an ordeal to go and buy some bread or whatever.

I was a shy child. I had anxiety. I used to cry when I had to give a presentation.

My shyness probably defined the first 30 years of my life, really. It's a crippling thing. It can be very lonely knowing that you've got things to say, but you daren't say them.