{"quotes":[{"text":"You might be an introvert if you were ready to go home before you left the house.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["anti-social","anti-social-instincts","antisocial","antisocial-instincts","bored","drained","energy","extroversion","extrovert","funny","funny-but-true","home","homebody","house","humor","instincts","introversion","introvert","loner","partying","peace","personality","quiet","quiet-time","recharge","rest","restoration","shy","sleepy","social","tired","traits"],"id":53537,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Anxiety kicked in. I lacked people skills all my life. Any normal human interaction was foreign to me. I don’t know what to say, to not look like a major dork or something. I am weird like that. Always were.The dead – that’s a whole other world we’re talking about. They can’t interfere with my everyday life, other than to annoy me. I can be myself around the dead. The dead are good. The living? Not so much.","author":"Tia Artemis","tags":["antisocial","anxiety","dead","ghosts","introvert","people","people-skills"],"id":81197,"author_id":"Tia+Artemis"},{"text":"While humans have the propensity to develop a suite of prosocial behaviors, they are also capable of developing antisocial behavior, engaging in substance abuse, experiencing depression, and bearing children at an early age...Young people who develop aggressive behavior tendencies are likely to develop problems with tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use; to fail academically; to have children at an early age;and to raise children likely to have the same problems.","author":"Anthony Biglan","tags":["antisocial","baby","behavior","children","family","inspirational","nurture","nurturing","pro-sociality","prosocial","science","society"],"id":110922,"author_id":"Anthony+Biglan"},{"text":"Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["affable","alone","amicable","anchoress","anchorite","anthropocentric","anthropocentrism","antisocial","approachable","ascetic","by-oneself","chummy","cloistered","clubby","communicative","companionable","companionless","convivial","cordial","eremite","extrovert","forthcoming","friendless","friendly","genial","gregarious","hail-fellow-well-met","hermit","hermitic","incommunicado","introvert","isolate","isolation","lone-wolf","lonely","loner","lonesome","marabout","misanthrope","misanthropy","on-one-s-own","open","outgoing","recluse","reclusive","responsive","seclude","secluded","sociable","solitarian","solitary","solitudinarian","troglodyte","unaccompanied","unsociable","warm","withdrawn"],"id":125070,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"After college, I started working in the gallery and found myself surrounded by a whole new set of people who had not yet grown accustomed to my antisocial tendencies, who had not yet learned to expect me to say no, and stopped asking. I was invited to go drinking and dancing again, and so, I tried.","author":"Sara Baume","tags":["a-line-made-by-walking","antisocial","friendships","introvert","misanthrope","relationships","sara-baume"],"id":129669,"author_id":"Sara+Baume"},{"text":"The most spiritual people I’ve ever met were not “givers” they were communicators. You don’t give people crumbs. You give them the whole piece of bread when that is what they are asking for, in order to be healed. Christ was never about hiding behind a Facebook page, an email, a prayer circle, a bible, or a church. He was about talking, listening and healing-- face to face. He walked among sinners and ate with them. He devoted his time to people that were brokenhearted, difficult to like and fake as the religious beliefs they clung to. So, why is it that so many people profess to believe in Christ, yet they have forgotten what real love is----communicating?","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["antisocial","beyond-blind-faith","beyond-prayers","christlike","christs-mission","churches","communicating","communicators","curteousy","decency","dialog","direct-contact","facebook","failing-members","failing-service","failing-society","false-teachings","internet","lack-of-etiquette","love-of-christ","not-helpful","pastors","poor-service","religion","respect","respectful","sermons","spiritual-people","spirituality","true-kindness","true-loving","web"],"id":141503,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"He never looks you straight in the eye; or if he does, it is somehow vaguely, indefinitely; he does not pierce you with the hawk's eye or the falcon's gaze of a cavalry officer. The reason for that is that he sees, at one and the same time, both your features and those of some plaster Hercules standing in his room, or else he imagines a painting of his own that he still means to produce. That is why his responses are often incoherent, not to the point, and the muddle of things in his head increases his timidity all the more.","author":"Nikolai Gogol","tags":["antisocial","artists"],"id":158519,"author_id":"Nikolai+Gogol"},{"text":"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.","author":"Kenneth Grahame","tags":["antisocial","badgers","dinner","invitations","society"],"id":171923,"author_id":"Kenneth+Grahame"},{"text":"When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["alone","antisocial","attitude","breakup","childish","childishness","complain","complaining","complexity","difficult-person","disregard","fail","fun","insult","insults","open-minded","peculiarity","people","rejection","remember","simplicity","snob","social-life","squabble","underate","underestimate","underestimation"],"id":229874,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"The poet, the artist, the sleuth - whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial; rarely 'well-adjusted', he cannot go along with currents and trends. A strange bond often exists between antisocial types in their power to see environments as they really are. This need to interface, to confront environments with a certain antisocial power is manifest in the famous story 'The Emperor's New Clothes'.","author":"Marshall McLuhan","tags":["antisocial","insight","nonconformist","quentin-fore"],"id":257861,"author_id":"Marshall+McLuhan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}