The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.
The comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation
(n.) The act of introverting, or the state of being introverted; the act of turning the mind inward.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The jacket shifted. Geryon peered out.
It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.
Some animals carry their shelter wherever they go. Some humans are just the same.
Although she was gregarious, she inadvertently separated herself from people because she was so often inside her own head, focusing on her creativity.
For I see not what there is desirable in publick esteeme, were I able to acquire & maintaine it. It would perhaps increase my acquaintance, the thing which I chiefly study to decline.
Only a few have learned to savor the significance of solitude. Those who can glory in being alone on occasion are the saint or poet or explorer.
So the next time you see a person with a compose face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be depl...
Any human companionship, even the dearest and most perfect, would have been alien to her then. She was sufficient unto herself, needing not love nor comradeship nor any human emotion to round out her...
Introverts don't like small talk conversation, but they typically don't mind writing. The more people can "see" you on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or a blog, the more they will feel like they know you...
the idea of being invisibly alone in a crowd of strangers is so tempting for a number of introverts...or maybe for loneliness?