“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
“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
As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The Numbness has started from my feet, how long till it reaches my brain ? — Vardhan 25-6 Copy Share Image
“I was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view.” — haruki murakami Copy Share Image
I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness. — Augusten Burroughs 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
Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
But what would that be like feeling the tide rise out of the numbness inside — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“The only good thing, is that the cold wakes her up and she doesn’t have to struggle to stay conscious. The bad… — Amy Lunderman Copy Share Image
Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“As he sat at his desk in his comfortable office armchair, he allowed his body to sink into a creeping state of… — Yasutaka Tsutsui Copy Share Image
“Numbness was a mere purgatory of gray. No, there was a much worse place. Darkness masquerading as enlightenment. It was a place… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“She felt it every night; a familiar pain in her loin, a gasp of air, the numbness and the nauseousness, the rapid… — Anonymous1234 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
I was not allowed to think of him. That was something I tried to be very strict about. Of course I slipped;… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“To distort our faces with joy, or wail and weep with sorrow, or collapse in agony, or wallow in sentimentality – wasn’t… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
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… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
It was, just as Kinski had predicted, suicide. He should never have done it. It is widely held by those who knew… — Cintra Wilson Copy Share Image
Great potential for personal empowerment can be found in attending to our awareness of global problems and to our understanding of how… — Sarah Connor Copy Share Image
“For the first time in a long time, I drive with no music. I'm not happy-not happy about Jane and Mr. Randall… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Because there's no way I can do that." "Yes, there is." He reached out, startling me, and pressed his palm to my… — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“I am off to a life where I can exist in a room and not have to pretend I want to be… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
“I get a prompt about using my Dissociative Cognition System. It takes considerable effort to make even that decision, but I manage… — Adrian Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
“I thought about suicide all the time, but it seemed toomuch effort, swallowing all those pills or jumping off things. If I'd… — Helena Dela Copy Share Image
“Dissociation is numbness and nothingness; it is a feeling of being lost; it is floating on a cloud that threatens to suffocate;… — Noel Hunter 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
