This behavior may...counteract feelings of'numbness'and depersonalization that aries duriing periods of extreme stress.-153 Girl,Interrupted — Susanna Kaysen 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
When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard. — Sylvia Plath 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
It was too much. The comfortable people made comfortable jokes about weather and things but I sat mostly silent saying a word… — Charles Bukowski 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
Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others. — Margaret Atwood 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
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
“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
“It was strange how in that moment of tragedy, it had seemed so unreal, like an old-fashioned movie reel playing on a… — Karen Ann Hopkins 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
