Marianne Elliott 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.

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.

Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still years from being diagnosed, but it affected me quite deeply. I was too afraid to speak out in class, too nervous to make real friends.

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.

In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.

I was a very shy child. I remember being in a kindergarten open house with my mother and children saying 'Hi' to me, and I still remember feeling this way - but I don't know why - but I wouldn't even say 'Hi' back. I was that shy.

There is something strange about me. I don't ever feel at ease in a group of people. I have to fight hard to overcome my fears.

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.

I had some social anxiety when I was younger because I wasn't surrounded by many people in my life.

I was a wallflower. I never talked to anybody. I was so afraid of people, I never said a word.

I don't like to go out a lot. It's trouble.

I have experienced loneliness at many, many points in my life and felt this profound sense of shame about it - all the years when I was a child that I struggled with feeling lonely when I was scared to go to school and petrified of walking into the elementary school cafeteria because I was worried I wouldn't have anyone to sit with.

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.

I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.

I don't get as much female attention as you'd think, because I never go out.

I've never had friends, and I don't like to be around big groups of people.

I don't like when there's too much conversation because I'm shy and it makes me uncomfortable.

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

I sense from people that they get frustrated with me for not being out and about. But I guess I'm a shy boy.

I liked Columbia, but it was like high school in that there was this big social world that I was not part of. I existed on the side, far away. That might be temperamental, my own fear of large groups, more than anything else. But I had a handful of professors who meant a lot to me.

I don't like going out. I hate clubs. I hate being around too many people.

I'm not very good at talking and being with people and being gregarious and outgoing. I love people, but I have great difficulty doing it.

Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.