How shall I break up this numbness which discredits my…

She still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike anything she'd…

— Kristin Hannah

You have to be nicer to me," I said. Again he laughed. "What? I'm the King of nice. What are you talking about?" "You…

— Lauren Myracle

He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.

— Dennis Lehane

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 this heavy,…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became…

— Douglas Coupland

“...He called up the numbness with which he armed himself to get through each day.”

— Sandra Brown

And in some way, Clary thought, he meant it, meant his gratitude. He had long ago lost the ability to distinguish between force and…

— Cassandra Clare

Kill her for me," she said in that whiny little-girl voice. Diego took a step toward me, wearing an expression that told me he…

— Meg Cabot

The pain lets you know you're ok. It's the numbness you should be concerned about.

— Hussein Nishah

The numbness of his loss had passed, and the pain would hit me out of nowhere, doubling me over, racking my body with sobs.…

— Suzanne Collins

This morning I suddenly catch myself: I'm not there, I'm so lost in thought, I don't know what's going on around me. Can you…

— Anna Kamienska

“As he sat at his desk in his comfortable office armchair, he allowed his body to sink into a creeping state of drowsiness, and…

— Yasutaka Tsutsui

Every parent who has ever said a few words over a goldfish in a toilet bowl or felt the numbness of an unexpected diagnosis…

— Lori Borgman

Day just smiles at me, an expression so sad that it breaks through my numbness, and I begin to cry. Those bright blue eyes.…

— Marie Lu

“The same numbness and disappointment every day sends some people looking for something tragic for proof of life.”

— Bryant McGill