Apathy is a spiritual numbness that creeps in and corrupts the good that God intends for our life and the good that… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh 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
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
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
But what would that be like feeling the tide rise out of the numbness inside — David Whyte 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
“I was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view.” — haruki murakami 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
