16 Quotes About Love That Only Introverts Will Understand

"Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly."

"When you’re an introvert like me and you've been lonely for a while, and then you find someone who understands you, you become really attached to them. It's a real release."

"I want to be alone … with someone else who wants to be alone."

"Love is essential, gregariousness is optional."

"Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes"

"I can't think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there's no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more."

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

"Because introverts are typically good listeners and, at least, have the appearance of calmness, we are attractive to emotionally needy people. Introverts, gratified that other people are initiating with them, can easily get caught in these exhausting and unsatisfying relationships."

"I need someone who is comfortable with awkward silences and doesn't mind me not talking most of the time."

"Introverts treasure the close relationships they have stretched so much to make."

"I'm not open to many people. I'm usually quiet and I don't really like attention. So if I like you enough to show you the real me, you must be very special."

"The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person's solitude."

"She was an adventurer at heart; but oh how she loved drinking this tea from this mug in this chair. Oh how she loved to be home."

"I like cancelled plans. And empty bookstores. I like rainy days and thunderstorms. And quiet coffee shops. I like messy beds and over-worn pajamas. Most of all, I like the small joys that a simple life brings."

"There are times when I need nothing but the sweetness of my solitude. But please know, that like the ocean promises the shore, I will never leave without coming back to you."

"So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me. Because I, too, am fluent in silence."