“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
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
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk. — Anonymous 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness. — Augusten Burroughs 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“...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
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
Personal voice- prophesy- disrupts the state of communal numbness in which most of us exist. — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
