19+ Social Anxiety Quotes When You Feel Alone – Bokey
Do you ever feel like you’re the only one who feels this way? Like nobody understands what you’re going through? That’s how I felt when I was struggling with social anxiety.
It can be so isolating and frustrating, feeling like you’re the only one struggling. But luckily, there are plenty of other people out there who understand what it’s like. Here are 19+ social anxiety quotes to read when you feel alone:
1. “The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.” -Unknown
2. “Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.” – Anais Nin
3. “I think the key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success.” – Diesel
4. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn
5. “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” – Michel de Montaigne
6. “The most common form of despair is not being who you are.” – Søren Kierkegaard
7. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you’ll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself” – Rudyard Kipling
9. “I am regularly ask what advice I would offer someone who ‘wants to be me when they grow up.’ My answer: Don’t try.” – Neil Gaiman
10. “The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” – Sylvia Plath
11. “Don’t let anyone ever make you feel like you don’t deserve what you want.” – unknown
12. “You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.” – unknown
13. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life… Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking… Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition… Everything else is secondary..” – Steve Jobs
14. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou
15. “We’re all damaged in our own ways. Nobody’s perfect. I think we all just need to accept that fact and move on.” – Jodi Picoult
16. “The most important thing is to enjoy your life- to be happy- it’s all that matters.” – Dalai Lama
17. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.” – Bernard M. Baruch
18. “The most common form of despair is not being who you are.” – Søren Kierkegaard
19. “The best way to conquer your fears is to face them.” – Unknown
20. “The only way to get over a fear is to do the thing that you’re afraid of.” – Unknown
21. “What stands in the way becomes the way.” – Marcus Aurelius
22. “So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and survived, or he who has never experienced any trouble?” – Michel de Montaigne
It can be difficult to function with social anxiety. The feeling of everyone watching your every move. Like you’re the center of attention that you don’t want. Although this mental barrier is something you face, understand that there’s nothing wrong with feeling this way.
