But what would that be like feeling the tide rise out of the numbness inside — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The pain lets you know you're ok. It's the numbness you should be concerned about. — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added. — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Your heart drops as you realize what the truth is, your body becomes frozen, and your mind creates a numbness that never… — Rachel Copy Share Image
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Of course there is nothing the matter with the stars It is my emptiness among them While they drift farther away in… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness--these… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Funny how a paper cut or stubbing your toe can feel like the worst pain but I can take a knife to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Waking up there is a numbness, a coldness that you never knew that had existed in you. I guess that's why things… — Anonymous1234 Copy Share Image
There is a level of grief so deep that it stops resembling grief at all. The pain becomes so severe that the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
She still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
She examined me, she looked at me critically and said, "Why are you trying to starve yourself?" To keep myself from feeling… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I want to care, but I don't. I look at you and all I feel is tired. I walk through school and… — Elizabeth Scott Copy Share Image
Just that, is one of those uncommon moments, those times when you don't wish for something else, for even one thing to… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“When our mental functioning is whittling away and our mind becomes a lame duck, perception does not form the context anymore and… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me;… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
“My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Torture presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others suffering, dehumanizing them so much that their pain… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying face… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There are those, however, that are not frightened of grief: dropping deep into the sorrow, they find therein a necessary elixir to… — David Abram Copy Share Image
I lay and cried, and began to feel again, to admit I was human, vulnerable, sensitive. I began to remember how it… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I have carpal tunnel so I can't write more than four hours total without tingling numbness. I take a lot of breaks… — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
“How shall I break up this numbness which discredits my sympathetic heart?” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Personal voice- prophesy- disrupts the state of communal numbness in which most of us exist. — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
People talk about the pain of grief, but I don't know what they mean. To me, grief is a devastating numbness, every… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Nothing is more satisfying than mental numbness to me. I can stay in that state without having to worry about happiness or… — Mudcat Copy Share Image
I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Without love everything can be nothing. Does that make me want to love? No. For me, Ignorance is still better than martyrdom.” — Ira N. Barin Copy Share Image
“We conform to pain until we don't notice it anymore; it's what you call — numb — and it tragically blots out… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The Numbness has started from my feet, how long till it reaches my brain ? — Vardhan 25-6 Copy Share Image
Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone. — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The airy sky has taken its place leaning against the wall. It is like a prayer to what is empty And what… — Tomas Transtromer Copy Share Image
They give me a shot and a handful of pills to swallow. I stare at the thin red wall of my inner… — Will Christopher Baer Copy Share Image
“After a day of heat and hunger, one is weak and listless. But a certain stuport, an internal numbness, has its benefits:… — Ryszard Kapuściński Copy Share Image
The numbness of his loss had passed, and the pain would hit me out of nowhere, doubling me over, racking my body… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
