Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Art is the antidote that can call us back from the edge of numbness, restoring the ability to feel for another.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Suddenly I no longer knew the difference between hot and cold, ache or numbness, all or nothingness. — Needa Muy 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
My real life memory of leaving Uni is an overwhelming excitement to be going home but also a weird numbness. — Zawe Ashton Copy Share Image
“The same numbness and disappointment every day sends some people looking for something tragic for proof of life.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I grow numb; I grow stiff. How shall I break up this numbness which discredits my sympathetic heart? — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Physical pain was easy. It would always pass in the end. All it needed was time - a ticking clock.” — Sidney Knight 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
“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 still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike… — Kristin Hannah 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
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 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
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
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
“When our mental functioning is whittling away and our mind becomes a lame duck, perception does not form the context anymore and… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me;… — Frederic Chopin 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
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
“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
“She had been defeated by herself alone, and the sadness of it left a dark shadow in her heart. It further sapped… — Yo Yo 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
“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 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 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
“At such moments the collapse of their courage, willpower, and endurance was so abrupt that they felt they could never drag themselves… — Camus Albert 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
“The pain makes you so numb, At times, you feel as if you are hallucinating, Seeing things happen to you as if… — BinYamin Gulzar Copy Share Image
