25 Quotes That INFPs Will Instantly Identify With
INFPs are the imaginative, introspective idealists in the Myers-Briggs® personality system. These individuals are guided by a deep, internal set of subjective values and ethics and strive to live peaceful and harmonious lives. While on the outside they may seem soft-spoken and gentle, on the inside they have a fiery determination to do what is right and stand up for the causes they believe in. More than anything they want to live with integrity and make the world a better place.
Reading these quotes will give you a little glimpse into the INFP way of thinking! Not all the people quoted here are INFPs, but they each are saying something that will resonate with this personality type.
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25 Quotes that INFPs Will Instantly Identify With
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Once you label me, you negate me.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
“In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.”
– Anne Frank
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
– Albert Einstein
“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.”
– Robin Williams
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlaying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before – more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”
– Charles Dickens
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”
– Charles Dickens
“When I look at a person, I see a person – not a rank, not a class, not a title.”
– Criss Jami
“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That’s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”
– Stephen King
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars and change the world.”
– Harriet Tubman
“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
– E.E. Cummings
“There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask “What if I fall?”
Oh but darling,
What if you fly?”
– Erin Hanson
“Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.”
– Markus Zusak
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
– Albert Camus
“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
– Emily Dickinson
“Don’t you think it’s better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”
– Audrey Niffenegger
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
– Marilyn Monroe
“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
– J.K. Rowling
“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
– Walter M. Miller
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
– C.S. Lewis
“Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”
– Criss Jami
“I must be a mermaid…I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
– Anais Nin
“The pathos and gift of life is that we cannot know which will be our defining heartbreak, or our most victorious joy.”
– Alexandra Fuller
“I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.”
– Jeanette Winterson
“Conformity is deformity.”
– Sharon Desruisseaux
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Good morning, Susan.
I like all of them ?, but these two really resonate with me:
“There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask “What if I fall?”
Oh but darling,
What if you fly?”
– Erin Hanson
“I must be a mermaid…I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
– Anais Nin
Thank you for the post. I can see you put a lot of work into it, and, as in everything you do, it shines ?.
Gilbert
I would like to add a quote which says that
Some call me crazy while some call me for advice.
I’m an INFP, so I I had to laugh out loud when my favorite quote (for years now) was the very first one the list — it is only with the heart we see rightly, the essential is invisible to the eye. Quite a few of the others resonated as well. Thanks for writing such a unique and uplifting post. 🙂
I think that everything that happens to us is our fault —but that’s not OUR fault.. Quentin Crisp
Oh my! I love quotes and these are spectacular. Thank you for compiling these and sharing them with us!
Out of adversity arises opportunity.
“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
LOVE this quote!
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That’s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”
– Stephen King
All if them, especially..
When I look at a person, i see a person – not a rank not a class, not a title
In the long run the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit (oh how Anne would weep to see what happened to her happening to the poor Palestinians.. a hollocaust ALL over again)
(This one made me cry) If i can stop one heart from breaking, i shall not live in vain
And as always – Pray for the innocent Palestinian men, women and CHILDREN who have NO military making apartheid Israels attacks GENOCIDE.. from the river to the sea Palestine will be free ❤????????❤????????❤????????❤????????❤????????❤????????
Why talk politics here? What is that all about?Anyhow, you’re misinformed. Palistinians do not want peace. They want the destruction of Israel, like the rest of the Islamic world wants the destruction of Israel. If Palistinians would choose to raise their children without a perpetual hate for Israel, and would choose to work together, things would change for the better. Better even if they would choose to work at all for a change.
Why talk politics here? What is that all about?Anyhow, you’re misinformed. Palistinians do not want peace. They want the destruction of Israel, like the rest of the Islamic world wants the destruction of Israel. If Palistinians would choose to raise their children without a perpetual hate for Israel, and would choose to work together, things would change for the better. Better even if they would choose to work at all for a change.
We are so lucky you were able to produce an objective comment. With no bias what so ever.
I have read exactly one book by Stephen King, and it terrified me so much that I never plan to read another. Yet his was the quote that brought tears to my eyes, because it reflects the most carefully-guarded part of my life.
I have read exactly one book by Stephen King, and it terrified me so much that I never plan to read another. Yet his was the quote that brought tears to my eyes, because it reflects the most carefully-guarded part of my life.
Your quote from the Messenger was ????… I still remember the first time I read it my mind was blown away and almost for a mere moment my eyes opened to the secrets of the cosmos.
I resonate with every one of these quotes. My favorites being from Stephen King, Robin Williams, Albert Einstein, Anne Frank, Albert Camus, Harriet Tubman, Marilyn Monroe, Criss Jami, & Walter M. Miller; but the one that instantly brought tears to my eyes, even trying to hold it back, was
“There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask “What if I fall?”
Oh but darling,
What if you fly?”
– Erin Hanson
Another quote I can’t seem to get enough of and follows me everywhere is
“Not everyone who wanders is lost.”
Thank you for this beautiful post.
I particularly identified with the Stephen King, C.S. Lewis and Sharon Desruisseaux quotes
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Almost all my life I thought I was weird. Thank you for the work you do profiling personality types. Now I realise I am perfectly normal and I have kindred spirits all over the world. The quote about it being hardwork to just appear normal is quite hilarious for me, because as an INFP it is something I have to do often!!
definitely the Stephen King one, as I’m in the process of trying to put my own writing out into the world, and it is quite terrifying. As much as you want to do it, there is this part of you that thinks, what if people actually understand me – more than even I do ha ha!
I’d definitely have to say that “conformity is deformity” is my favorite. Short, sweet, and to the point without beating around any bushes.
Definitely my favorite: “When I look at a person, I see a person – not a rank, not a class, not a title.”
– Criss Jami
I love the Steven King one!
Me too! I love when a question is asked and answered in a quote!
Wow! What a great article, The Thread of Truth that’s in every quote in this article is The Universal Truth. Seems to me we all HAD to be made by the same One. ALL of us on this planet are just Different Garments made by the Same Taylor that clothed the Spirit of Operation for the Person. That’s why I feel Religion shouldn’t exist. Are not these folks as dead to the past as Jesus, Mohammed or Gandhi? These three had a INFP/HSP like personality trait similar to the trait that makes up the brilliance of Alanis Morissette. Perhaps if you have seen the Documentary,’Sensitive,
The Untold Story, you’d agree?( I’d love to hear back) I’m happy to be from Canada as she is and I’m sure her lyrics has saved millions of lives. But I wouldn’t be a worshiper in the Church of Alanis either, could you imagine that Jagged little Pill? But I’d go to a concert. What’s the difference? Keep up the great work!
The quote by E.E. Cummings spoke to me on a visceral level! But Erin Moran’s quote is one I have always lived by…
I have three favorites: E.E. Cummings’ quote brought tears to my eyes because I feel he said it directly to me!
I also love the one by Criss Jami “Closed in my room, my imagination becomes the universe…” This is how I survived my abusive parents.
And Steven King, oh my heart, “…but for want of an understanding ear.”
e.e.cummings
I love the J.K.Rowling quote.
The Stephen King quote. ALL. THE. WAY…
….like wow.
I forgot how much I love E.E. Cummings. When I saw her quotes it all came back. My favorite is the one about conformity.