Of course, antisocial personality disorder describes an ingrained pattern of behavior in which individuals consistently disregard and violate the rights of others around them. But also, we can use the term antisocial to describe the want to be alone, because you can be yourself without judgment and pressure. Wise and inspirational antisocial quotes will encourage you to feel more comfortable being by yourself anyway.

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Famous Antisocial Quotes

When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity. – Michael Bassey Johnson

We are not anti-social; we’re differently social. – Susan Cain

Humans are naturally social; civilization causes us to be antisocial. – Kirk D. Sinclair

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. – Albert Camus

Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness. – Criss Jami

I love mankind… it’s people I can’t stand!! – Charles M. Schulz

When someone speaks to an introvert, her brain responds with a high level of activity. It is as if several lights start flashing on a control panel. – Laurie Helgoe

Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action. – Walter Anderson

Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so. – François VI de la Rochefoucault

The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up. – Susan Cain

A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work. – John Lubbock

Introverts don’t get lonely if they don’t socialize with a lot of people, but we do get lonely if we don’t have intimate interactions on a regular basis. – Sophia Dembling

All this talking, this rather liquid confessing, was something I didn’t think I could ever bring myself to do. It seemed foolhardy to me, like an uncooked egg deciding to come out of its shell: there would be a risk of spreading out too far, turning into a formless puddle. – Margaret Atwood

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them. – Andre Gide

I was just confused about why I was feeling overwhelmed all the time and trying to adjust to having people work for me. – Felicia Day

Do not be afraid of tomorrow, for God is already there. – Unknown

Some introverts are perfectly comfortable with public speaking; I’m not one of them. – Susan Cain

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. – Edmund Hillary

Fear is the highest fence. – Dudley Nichols

Introverts feel just right with less stimulation, as when they sip wine with a friend, solve a crossword puzzle, or read a book. – Susan Cain

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. – Anais Nin

Many people believe that introversion is about being antisocial, and that’s really a misperception. Because actually it’s just that introverts are differently social. So, they would prefer to have a glass of wine with a close friend as opposed to going to a loud party full of strangers. – Susan Cain

Introverts crave meaning so party chit-chat feels like sandpaper to our psyche. – Diane Cameron

After an hour or two of being socially on, we introverts need to turn off and recharge. This isn’t antisocial. It isn’t a sign of depression. – Jonathan Rauch

I enjoyed the discipline and solitariness of long-distance running, which allowed me to escape from the hurly-burly of school life. – Nelson Mandela

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. – Ernest Hemingway

The trick with introverts is for them to honor their styles instead of allowing themselves to be swept up by prevailing norms. – Susan Cain

If the conversation doesn’t interest us, we often go quiet and wander the wonderland that is our imagination. We find endless entertainment in our ideas and fantasies. – Michaela Chung

Often, we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon. – Henri J.M. Nouwen

Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. – Saint Francis De Sales

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. – Leo Buscaglia

Self-abuse is anti-social, aggression still natural. – Richey Edwards

The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level. – Christian Lous Lange

And for this you must have quiet and solitude. But society does not allow you to have them. You must be with people, outwardly active at all costs. If you are alone you are considered antisocial or peculiar, or you are afraid of your own loneliness. – Jiddu Krishnamurti

To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder. – Gore Vidal

Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You might be an introvert if you were ready to go home before you left the house. Criss Jami

Anti-social behavior still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality. – Theresa May

Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists. – Nikola Tesla

Apparently when it’s two people, it’s quirky and funny, but when it’s a person doing the same stuff on her own, it’s rebellious and antisocial. – Katie Alender

Nobody adopts antisocial behavior unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life. – Alfred Adler

Sometimes those who don’t socialize much aren’t actually anti-social, they just have no tolerance for drama and fake people. – Anonymous

The trouble with not being into social networking is that people think you’re anti-social when you’re only anti-networking. – Robert Breault

People with antisocial personality disorders aren’t automatically bad, they simply approach the world with a more ruthless set of lenses. The lack of empathy or very weak empathy and the ability to read other people’s weak spots can be a flammable combination when you get in the way of something they want. But they aren’t a different species. They’re a part of our spectrum. – Eden Robinson

Being anti-social can also mean that you’re aware of how annoying it is to be social. – Dov Davidoff

If you think about computer programming, it’s as antisocial as it gets. – Shawn Fanning

I’m not anti-social. I’m pro-solitude.

Taking toilet breaks is not antisocial, it’s a lifesaver. – Maxime Lagacé