Of course there is nothing the matter with the stars It is my emptiness among them While they drift farther away in… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
I have carpal tunnel so I can't write more than four hours total without tingling numbness. I take a lot of breaks… — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
Personal voice- prophesy- disrupts the state of communal numbness in which most of us exist. — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“We conform to pain until we don't notice it anymore; it's what you call — numb — and it tragically blots out… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness--these… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Waking up there is a numbness, a coldness that you never knew that had existed in you. I guess that's why things… — Anonymous1234 Copy Share Image
She examined me, she looked at me critically and said, "Why are you trying to starve yourself?" To keep myself from feeling… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The airy sky has taken its place leaning against the wall. It is like a prayer to what is empty And what… — Tomas Transtromer Copy Share Image
The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“If I could open a vein. Not to inject any shit, I will never weaken like that again, but just to feel… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
No matter what feeling comes up - numbness, irritability, shame - if I let it arise and play itself through, I naturally… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate… — John Keats Copy Share Image
And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying face… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying.… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“...I think the more she has failed at things like relationships and parenting, the more she has cut herself off from feeling… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“I’m still depressed, but how depressed I am varies, which is good. Much of the time, it’s a comfortable numbness that just… — Allie Brosh Copy Share Image
“Art can blow us out of our pigeon hole. In deafness it may shout or scream, in blindness it may arrest our… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
So you couldn't protect yourself? The absolute erodes; the boundary, the wall around the self erodes. If I was waiting I had… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
And so I am feeling numb. It's a curious feeling, and I get it all the time. My attention to the world… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“At the time, I remained relatively calm before that spectacle of horrors, which is perhaps the most telling indication of just how… — Kang Chol-Hwan Copy Share Image
You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness… — Tasha Alexander Copy Share Image
Her heart began to ache, and she felt the numbness slip away. Misery welled up inside her. She clamped down on it,… — Lili Wilkinson Copy Share Image
He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the warm, earthy world.… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do… — Douglas Coupland 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
I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I am feeling fine. I remember these words and recite them. These are the things you say when asked how you are.… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Your superhuman power was to be able not to feel. Is it there inside everybody, this self that comes out while you… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
As from a star I saw, coldly and soberly, the separateness of everything. I felt the wall of my skin; I am… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I almost said, you're not broken, you're just going through something. But i couldn't. She knew. There was something terribly wrong with… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I want someone to pinch me so I can feel something, anything. I'm sick of this numbness, of feeling so alone and… — Carol Matas Copy Share Image
