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
... 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
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
“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
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
“Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to Hey… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
There's a numbness in our culture to the continuing horrors of genocide. — Anne Waldman 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
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
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
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
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
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
“Physical pain was easy. It would always pass in the end. All it needed was time - a ticking clock.” — Sidney Knight 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
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
Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain. — Margaret Atwood 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'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
Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison 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
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
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
