Avoidant Personality Quotes

As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.

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 don't really talk to people.

I'm very introverted. Easily a few days could go by where I would not really leave the house or talk to anybody other than my partner.

Terrified of being alone, yet afraid of intimacy, we experience widespread feelings of emptiness, of disconnection, of the unreality of self. And here the computer, a companion without emotional demands, offers a compromise. You can be a loner, but never alone. You can interact, but need never feel vulnerable to another person.

Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessively worried about what people think of you. Whereas an introvert might not feel any of those things at all, they simply have the preference to be in a quieter setting.

I am very shy - really shy - I even had a stutter as a kid, which I slowly got over, but I still regress into that shyness. So I don't like walking into a crowded restaurant by myself; I don't like going to a party by myself.

As a child, I was very shy. Painfully, excruciatingly shy. I hid a lot in my room. I was so terrified to read out loud in school that I had to have my mother ask my reading teacher not to call on me in class.

Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?

I can't even lie: Sometimes, I be antisocial.

She didn't like to be alone. Even more, she didn't like being with people. (148)

Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.

I had an attachment disorder.

I am such a notorious hermit - almost pathological. And, I'm not a hoarder. But that's just a symptom of things that I do feel.

I'm particularly weird because I don't even like being looked at.

Shyness is a condition foreign to the heart - a category, a dimension which leads to loneliness.

Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that an avoidant infant might very well develop into a person whose principal need was to find some kind of meaning and order in life which was not entirely, or even chiefly, dependent upon interpersonal relationships

I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.

I avoid people who I actually like. I suppose that’s a phobia but also a habit.

To avoid taking responsibility, I become unresponsive but hang on until the other person leaves me.

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

I hate solitude but I am afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself and to turn it into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. The company I need is the company which a pub or a cafe will provide. I have never wanted a communion of souls.