We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed. — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
There's a numbness in our culture to the continuing horrors of genocide. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“Between blow and pain, there is that instant of numbness, an unreal moment...” — Parke Godwin Copy Share Image
“She wanted something she didn't have words for- peace, numbness, something. ” — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“...He called up the numbness with which he armed himself to get through each day.” — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“The same numbness and disappointment every day sends some people looking for something tragic for proof of life.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn't and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“I guess I should have reacted the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn't get myself to react. I… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
When we look squarely at injustice and get involved, we actually feel less pain, not more, because we overcome the gnawing guilt… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“She felt it every night; a familiar pain in her loin, a gasp of air, the numbness and the nauseousness, the rapid… — Anonymous1234 Copy Share Image
Sometimes it hurt so much when you misses somebody that you can no longer breath¦no longer cry¦then the pain becomes familiar everyday… — Cutymims Copy Share Image
Great potential for personal empowerment can be found in attending to our awareness of global problems and to our understanding of how… — Sarah Connor Copy Share Image
“She had been defeated by herself alone, and the sadness of it left a dark shadow in her heart. It further sapped… — Yo Yo Copy Share Image
“Because there's no way I can do that." "Yes, there is." He reached out, startling me, and pressed his palm to my… — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone ‘identified’… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
And in some way, Clary thought, he meant it, meant his gratitude. He had long ago lost the ability to distinguish between… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
We don't exist unless there is someone who can see us existing, what we say has no meaning until someone can understand,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“This moment would define my memory of that night, and of the many nights like it, for a decade. In it I… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
I grow numb; I grow stiff. How shall I break up this numbness which discredits my sympathetic heart? — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Wasn't it time she risked getting hurt again, instead of just accepting the numbness of never letting anyone in? — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
“Physical pain was easy. It would always pass in the end. All it needed was time - a ticking clock.” — Sidney Knight Copy Share Image
“Art is the antidote that can call us back from the edge of numbness, restoring the ability to feel for another.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Suddenly I no longer knew the difference between hot and cold, ache or numbness, all or nothingness. — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
My real life memory of leaving Uni is an overwhelming excitement to be going home but also a weird numbness. — Zawe Ashton Copy Share Image
Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
