“The same numbness and disappointment every day sends some people looking for something tragic for proof of life.” — Bryant McGill 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
I grow numb; I grow stiff. How shall I break up this numbness which discredits my sympathetic heart? — Virginia Woolf 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
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
The pain lets you know you're ok. It's the numbness you should be concerned about. — Hussein Nishah 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
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 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
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
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
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
I'm up all night against my will My medicine won't let me feel anything at all The doctor gave me sleeping pills… — Joseph Arthur Copy Share Image
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.… — Anna Kamienska Copy Share Image
In general, it’s not too hard to corrupt an American, mostly a matter of supply to their demand. Supply should be variegated… — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
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
You have to be nicer to me," I said. Again he laughed. "What? I'm the King of nice. What are you talking… — Lauren Myracle Copy Share Image
You can live without me." "I don't want to." I feared a love like this - that made us incomplete without each… — Ann Aguirre 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
Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone. — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
I felt a kind of numbness, an enervation, but more particularly an odd fragility - as if my body had actually become… — William Styron Copy Share Image
Once you lose your parents, you get this numbness, this feeling of having to really be able to connect yourself with someone.… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
“When the murmuring of love swells the river of our inner and overflows the boundaries of our emotions, the banks of oblivion… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
I believe that you've created a metaphorical universe in which you can express your darkest fears. In one aspect, yes, I believe… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
There is a curious comfort in letting go. After the agony, letting go brings numbness, and after the numbness, clarity. As if… — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
“He just wanted to stop thinking. It was easier that way. The numbness hadn't left him; if anything it was spreading. When… — Jeyn Roberts Copy Share Image
Every parent who has ever said a few words over a goldfish in a toilet bowl or felt the numbness of an… — Lori Borgman Copy Share Image
My main goal is to stay alive. To keep fooling myself into hanging around. To keep getting up every day. Right now… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Kill her for me," she said in that whiny little-girl voice. Diego took a step toward me, wearing an expression that told… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
