Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
That pain will always be there, but it's slowly fading, soon it'll just be a small numbness:) — Rachel Copeland Copy Share Image
... when he kissed her, she received the kiss without returning it, her eyes wide open, not afraid, not a virgin's eyes,… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view.” — haruki murakami Copy Share Image
This behavior may...counteract feelings of'numbness'and depersonalization that aries duriing periods of extreme stress.-153 Girl,Interrupted — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope. — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I wanted to turn everything off, too. Just press a button - click - and shut myself down. Turn off my heart,… — Kevin Brooks Copy Share Image
“The only good thing, is that the cold wakes her up and she doesn’t have to struggle to stay conscious. The bad… — Amy Lunderman Copy Share Image
Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“I'll never let you brood over my numbness As long as your onion love I peel and cry I'll never let you… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“Numbness was a mere purgatory of gray. No, there was a much worse place. Darkness masquerading as enlightenment. It was a place… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“As he sat at his desk in his comfortable office armchair, he allowed his body to sink into a creeping state of… — Yasutaka Tsutsui Copy Share Image
“There is a feeling of disbelief that comes over you, that takes over, and you kind of go through the motions. You… — Frederick Barthelme Copy Share Image
I was not allowed to think of him. That was something I tried to be very strict about. Of course I slipped;… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I turned away from him and went on my way, up the street and about my business. The past was dead. The… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
I wish I could explain it so someone could understand it. I'm afraid it's something I can't put into words. There's just… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“To distort our faces with joy, or wail and weep with sorrow, or collapse in agony, or wallow in sentimentality – wasn’t… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
It was, just as Kinski had predicted, suicide. He should never have done it. It is widely held by those who knew… — Cintra Wilson Copy Share Image
“For the first time in a long time, I drive with no music. I'm not happy-not happy about Jane and Mr. Randall… — John Green Copy Share Image
Day just smiles at me, an expression so sad that it breaks through my numbness, and I begin to cry. Those bright… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
It was too much. The comfortable people made comfortable jokes about weather and things but I sat mostly silent saying a word… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I am off to a life where I can exist in a room and not have to pretend I want to be… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
“It was strange how in that moment of tragedy, it had seemed so unreal, like an old-fashioned movie reel playing on a… — Karen Ann Hopkins Copy Share Image
“I get a prompt about using my Dissociative Cognition System. It takes considerable effort to make even that decision, but I manage… — Adrian Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
“I thought about suicide all the time, but it seemed toomuch effort, swallowing all those pills or jumping off things. If I'd… — Helena Dela Copy Share Image
“Dissociation is numbness and nothingness; it is a feeling of being lost; it is floating on a cloud that threatens to suffocate;… — Noel Hunter Copy Share Image
“At such moments the collapse of their courage, willpower, and endurance was so abrupt that they felt they could never drag themselves… — Camus Albert Copy Share Image
“The pain makes you so numb, At times, you feel as if you are hallucinating, Seeing things happen to you as if… — BinYamin Gulzar Copy Share Image
Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
