Explore a collection of insightful and empowering social anxiety quotes to overcome self–consciousness and discomfort in social situations.
Social anxiety is can make everyday interactions leading to feelings of isolation, low self–esteem, and avoidance of social settings. Many people struggle with the fear of judgment, embarrassment, and scrutiny, which can impact their quality of life and interpersonal relationships.
In this collection of social anxiety quotes, we aim to shed light on this complex condition. They offering inspiration to cultivate self–esteem and guidance for navigating social interactions with greater confidence and ease.
Whether you are seeking understanding, motivation, or practical advice, the wisdoms are sure serves a source of comfort and empowerment. Some quotes may validate your own feelings and experiences, while others may provide practical techniques for managing social anxiety.
Delve into the world of social anxiety quotes to cultivate resilience, develop self–confidence, and personal growth. See how the wisdom they offer change your mindset and motivate you to take small steps toward facing your fears.
Inspirational social anxiety quotes
Unlock the power of self–compassion and self–care with our social anxiety quotes.
Introverts are like the stars in star apples. They don’t feel the need to reveal themselves, except someone rips them open.
Michael Bassey Johnson
The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail forever.
Daphne du Maurier
I realized that bullying never has to do with you. It’s the bully who’s insecure.
Shannon Ashley Garcia Mitchell
Anxiety is good for nothing if we can’t turn it into a defense.
Samuel Rush Meyrick
Please, don’t worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.
Robin Williams
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Someone’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
Les Brown
This is my letter to the world
That never wrote to me
Emily Dickinson
You don’t have to control your thoughts. You have to stop letting them control you.
Dan Millman
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.
Lao Tzu
Positive social anxiety quotes
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
Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy at the moment.
J. Donald Walters
Slow breathing is like an anchor in the midst of an emotional storm: The anchor won’t make the storm goes away, but it will hold you steady until it passes.
Russ Harris
You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.
Steve Maraboli
Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. The best is yet to come.
Zig Ziglar
You have a treasure within you that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.
Eckhart Tolle
A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.
Joyce Meyer
Instead of telling your loved one to do something social and getting frustrated when they can’t, try and bring more positive vibes to the table.
Kelly Jean
The happiness of being envied is glamour.
John Berger
Do not be sad Edward. They exclude you because they don’t understand you. Be happy you are the single one that differs from their normal community.
Dean Mackin
I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy. Because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anybody else to feel like that.
Robin Williams
Deep social anxiety quotes
I wanted to know that there were people like me, who had been broken and had their lives stolen from them because of social anxiety but had come out of the other side and learnt to manage it.
Kelly Jean
Our fear of rejection is really a fear of being less than.
Fallon Goodman
I love people but not in person.
Glennon Doyle
People with social anxiety disorder generally avoid social and performance situations whenever possible or endure them with considerable distress.
James Jefferson
You have dug your soul out of the dark; you have fought to be here; do not go back to what buried you.
Bianca Sparacino
Social anxiety made me feel pathetic and weak, and I often told myself that I was rubbish at everything.
Kelly Jean
The impact of social anxiety disorder on quality of life is enormous.
James Jefferson
People with social anxiety are not devoid of the basic desire for human connection; they just have trouble obtaining it in certain situations.
Fallon Goodman
He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would–be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.
Osamu Dazai
I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.
Herta Mülle
Social anxiety quotes sad
To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.
Boyd K. Packer
He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people’s opinions and feelings concerning himself…
George Eliot
We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.
Joko Beck
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
Charles Spurgeon
I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.
Emily Brontë
There is a unique sort of agony to entering a party alone.
Mackenzi Lee
I hate leaving the house. It hurts. No one understands that, no one can grasp how my chest gets so tight at the very thought of needing to go out.
Roseanna M. White
But I don’t want you to keep pretending you’re okay. I don’t want you to keep downplaying the hurt you feel like you’re not even human. You keep it up – all these lies to yourself, to other people, and soon you’re not going to know who you are.
Farah Naz Rishi
It’s sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should in this age.
Amanda Seyfried
I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, “Hi.” They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.
Augusten Burroughs
Overcoming social anxiety quotes
Check out this section of empowering social anxiety quotes. They help you navigate social situations with confidence and overcome self–consciousness.
Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.
Wayne W. Dyer
Mantra for Anxiety: This is not you. This is something moving through you. It can leave out of the same door it came in.
James Clear
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
Let your mind and heart rest for a while. You will catch up, the world will not stop spinning for you, but you will catch up. Take a rest.
Cynthia Go
Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions – not outside.
Marcus Aurelius
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert Camus
She has been through hell. So believe me when I say, fear her when she looks into a fire and smiles.
E. Corona
If you’re going through hell keep going.
Winston Churchill
Everything you have ever wanted, is sitting on the other side of fear.
George Addair
You are not weak. People like us, we’re brave. We’re the ones who get up and face our worst fears every day. We keep fighting.
Jen Wilde
Social anxiety quotes short
I’m not anti–social. I’m just not social.
Woody Allen
The way you tell your story to yourself matters.
Amy Cuddy
Social anxiety disorder is one of the most common mental illnesses in the world.
Fallon Goodman
There’s a lot of beauty in quiet strength.
Debbie Tung
I sat with my hands in my lap ready to agree with what anybody said.
Daphne du Maurier
The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.
Mignon McLaughlin
It’s not stress that kills us; it is our reaction to it.
Hans Selye
Social anxiety tries to protect us from rejection.
Fallon Goodman
I hope you like social awkwardness, because that’s all I’m bringing to the party.
Dan Pearce
The moment I started treating my social anxiety disorder, I started feeling better.
Ricky Williams
Healing social anxiety quotes
Empower yourself with this section of social anxiety quotes. The wisdom offering practical advice and encouragement to overcome fear.
Calm mind brings inner strength and self–confidence, so that’s very important for good health.
Dalai Lama
Knowing what caused your social anxiety is an important first step in healing from social anxiety and having empowering relationships with those around you.
Katy Morin
Your mental health is more important than the test, the interview, the lunch date, the meeting, the family dinner, the soccer game, the recital, and the grocery–run. Take care of yourself.
Naked With Anxiety
Anxiety and depression are the prices you pay for a well–lived life.
George Vaillant
Many of us have been through the crippling fears and constant anxiety that social anxiety produces – and have come out healthier and happier on the other side.
James Jefferson
Today, I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it because it was within me, in my own perceptions – not outside.
Marcus Aurelius
Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the most wonderful things that will ever happen to us.
Nicole Reed
I’m excellent at faking being okay with things, even when inside my brain there is a tiny screaming gnome who is definitely not okay.
Alice Oseman
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.
Chuang Tzu
I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud–high.
Charlotte Brontë
Social anxiety quotes funny
Stop your whining. If you are frightened, be silent. Whining is for prey. It attracts predators. And you are not prey.
Robin Hobb
Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.
William Shakespeare
If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.
Dean Smith
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.
Charlie Chaplin
Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.
Jodi Picoult
Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere.
Erma Bombeck
Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
Kahlil Gibran
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I was accidentally weird to you once, just know I will be thinking about it every night for the next 50 years.
Hana Michels
I just give myself permission to suck… I find this hugely liberating.
John Green
Quotes about social anxiety
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
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
When he is in the room with other persons, speech stops, as if there were a corpse in the apartment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
Dr. Seuss
But I guess that was the whole problem, at that point, my inability to deal with normal human interaction.
Kristen Roupenian
What is society but an individual? […] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.
Osamu Dazai
It’s just easier to avoid social situations.
Thomas Richards
Lying because of social anxiety leaves us in a vicious cycle of trying to protect ourselves but continuing the negative thought patterns.
Kelly Jean
The real tragedy of social anxiety is that it robs individuals of their greatest resource: other people.
Fallon Goodman
I’m shy, but I’m not clinically shy. I don’t have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties.
Samantha Bee
Judgemental social anxiety quotes
All general judgments are loose and imperfect.
Michel de Montaigne
No matter what. I like to be different. Its not easy to work the way we want, because we have to deal with a lot of judgmental people, but we’ve always been in that position, so its nothing we cannot handle.
Oliviero Toscani
Live life without being afraid of judgment from others because judgment from other sinners is invalid.
Karrine Steffans
What disturbs people’s minds are not events but their judgments on events.
Epictetus
Reality is much more complex than any judgment of right and wrong encourages you to believe. When you really understand the ethical, spiritual, social, economic, and psychological forces that shape individuals, you will see that people’s choices are not based on a desire to hurt
Michael Lerner
You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn’t be enough left to run it.
Henry Ford
If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.
Winston Churchill
What matters finally is not the world’s judgment of oneself but one’s own judgment of the world.
Gore Vidal
Human judgment of human actions is true and void, that is to say, first true and then void… The judgment of the word is true, the judgment in itself is void…
Franz Kafka
What other people think of me is none of my business.
Wayne Dyer
Final thoughts
These social anxiety quotes shed light on the struggles and challenges faced by individuals dealing with this condition. They highlight the feelings of fear, self–doubt, and isolation that often accompany social anxiety.
However, they also offer hope and encouragement by reminding us that we are not alone in our experiences. Keep these social anxiety quotes close to your hand and let them serves as a reminder to create a more inclusive and accepting society.
Hope that these social anxiety quotes have resonated with you and provided some comfort or inspiration. Sharing these quotes with others who may also be experiencing social anxiety can create a sense of community and support.
Remember, it is okay to take small steps towards overcoming your fears and seeking help when needed. Together, let us break the stigma surrounding mental health and spread awareness about social anxiety.