We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed. — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
There's a numbness in our culture to the continuing horrors of genocide. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Wasn't it time she risked getting hurt again, instead of just accepting the numbness of never letting anyone in? — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
“She wanted something she didn't have words for- peace, numbness, something. ” — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope. — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Between blow and pain, there is that instant of numbness, an unreal moment...” — Parke Godwin 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
“...He called up the numbness with which he armed himself to get through each day.” — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
“After a day of heat and hunger, one is weak and listless. But a certain stuport, an internal numbness, has its benefits:… — Ryszard Kapuściński 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
Sometimes it hurt so much when you misses somebody that you can no longer breath¦no longer cry¦then the pain becomes familiar everyday… — Cutymims 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
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
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
“There is a feeling of disbelief that comes over you, that takes over, and you kind of go through the motions. You… — Frederick Barthelme Copy Share Image
The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone ‘identified’… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
And in some way, Clary thought, he meant it, meant his gratitude. He had long ago lost the ability to distinguish between… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
We don't exist unless there is someone who can see us existing, what we say has no meaning until someone can understand,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“This moment would define my memory of that night, and of the many nights like it, for a decade. In it I… — Tara Westover 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
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
Day just smiles at me, an expression so sad that it breaks through my numbness, and I begin to cry. Those bright… — Marie Lu 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
Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
That pain will always be there, but it's slowly fading, soon it'll just be a small numbness:) — Rachel Copeland Copy Share Image
As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
... when he kissed her, she received the kiss without returning it, her eyes wide open, not afraid, not a virgin's eyes,… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
This behavior may...counteract feelings of'numbness'and depersonalization that aries duriing periods of extreme stress.-153 Girl,Interrupted — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh 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
“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
