30 Social Anxiety Quotes

In today’s 21st century, social Anxiety is common, where social anxiety is also known as social phobia. Social anxiety is a type of health condition characterized by an intense fear of social situations and interactions. Those people who have social anxiety usually experience excessive self-consciousness and worry about being judged or criticized by others. Some of the common symptoms of social anxiety are Fear of judgment, Avoidance behaviors, Physical symptoms, Negative self-talk, Difficulty speaking and Isolation. To deal with social anxiety here are the 30 social anxiety quotes that might be helpful for you,

1.“What other people think of me is none of my business.” -Wayne Dyer

2. “Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.” – Lao-Tze

3. “I realized that bullying never has to do with you. It’s the bully who’s insecure.”– Shannon Ashley Garcia Mitchell Sour

4. “Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It’s almost a fear of what you’re capable of.”– Rhys Ifans

5. “Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.”- Jonathan Katz

6. “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.”– Pete Davidson

7. “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.”– Susan Cain

8. “L’enfer, c’est les autres [Hell is other people].”― Sartre

9. “People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.“Epictetus

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10. “Nothing so much prevents our being natural as our desire to seem so.”― François de La Rochefoucauld

11. “We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.”― Joko Beck

12. “A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of delicacy, excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.”― Thomas Carlyle

13. “He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people’s opinions and feelings concerning himself…”- George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

14. “All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest. It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should I talk about, how should I say it? – I don’t know.”― Osamu Dazai

15. “The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”― Ernest Hemingway

16. “Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions — not outside.”― Marcus Aurelius

17. “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”- ― Albert Camus

18. “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”― Eleanor Roosevel

19. “Suddenly he saw himself as others in the crowd must surely see him; a silent, solitary figure, standing apart from the rest. He looked out at the hoardes of singing, laughing people and felt more alone than he’d ever felt in his life. Was this how it was going to be then? Was this who he was? A man apart from his fellows, making the journey through life alone?” ― Mary Lawson

20. “It’s sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should in this age.”― Amanda Seyfried

21. “When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability with nobody. But all of this vanishes when I face someone in the flesh: I lose my intelligence, I can no longer speak, and after half an hour I just feel tired. Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial.”― Fernando Pessoa

22. “Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.”― Ray Bradbury

23. “I’ve spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won’t leave, and fearing that it’s a matter of time before they figure me out and go.”― Shauna Niequist

24. “If I could be always alone with god, entirely indifferent about the opinions of men…I should reach a state to which I aspire, but have not yet attained.”― Henry Martyn

25. “I have social anxiety. It’s easier up on stage because there’s security in being there. When I’m off stage I’m trying not to be a manic freak. I’m quite shy.”― Sia Furler

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26. “Wild animals run from the dangers they actually see, and once they have escaped them worry no more. We however are tormented alike by what is past and what is to come. A number of our blessings do us harm, for memory brings back the agony of fear while foresight b― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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27. “Now that I have conquered social anxiety disorder, I find pleasure in fans approaching me.”― Ricky Williams

28. “The shy and the extroverted have this in common – that they both fancy they are the center of attention.” ― Robert Breault

29. “I learned years ago that it’s okay to do this. To seek out small spaces for me, to stop and imagine myself alone. People are too much sometimes. Friends, acquaintances, enemies, strangers. It doesn’t matter; they all crowd. Even if they’re all the way across the room, they crowd. I take a moment of silence and think:

I am here. I am okay.” ― Francesca Zappia

30. “The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.” ― Mignon McLaughlin

All the quotes of this article are taken from the conquersocialanxiety. com 

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