25 Quotes That INFPs Will Instantly

Identify With
By Susan Storm September 18, 2018

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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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

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
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 “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
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 “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,
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– 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

What Is Your Favorite Quote On This Page?

Was there one you really identified with strongly? One you would add? Let
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Susan Storm

Susan Storm is a certified MBTI® practitioner and Enneagram coach. She is

the mom of five beautiful children and loves using her knowledge of
personality type to understand them and others better! For fun, she enjoys
reading fiction, spending time outdoors, or challenging her friends to
tabletop board gaming competitions (Settlers of Catan, anyone?)

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Matt says:
April 20, 2022 at 11:18 am

I’d definitely have to say that “conformity is deformity” is my favorite. Short,

sweet, and to the point without beating around any bushes.

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Nyx says:
May 17, 2022 at 12:12 pm

Definitely my favorite: “When I look at a person, I see a person – not a rank,

not a class, not a title.”
– Criss Jami

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Meg says:
February 15, 2023 at 1:15 am

I love the Steven King one!

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March 16, 2023 at 9:43 pm

Me too! I love when a question is asked and answered in a quote!

Cory Mckay says:

April 6, 2023 at 6:15 pm

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!

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Carol Monfredo says:

April 7, 2023 at 6:51 am

The quote by E.E. Cummings spoke to me on a visceral level! But Erin

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Gina Snow says:

August 6, 2023 at 8:34 am

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.”

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Devin says:
August 7, 2023 at 4:39 am

e.e.cummings

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