Nothing is more satisfying than mental numbness to me. I can stay in that state without having to worry about happiness or… — Mudcat Copy Share Image
“Without love everything can be nothing. Does that make me want to love? No. For me, Ignorance is still better than martyrdom.” — Ira N. Barin Copy Share Image
I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The Numbness has started from my feet, how long till it reaches my brain ? — Vardhan 25-6 Copy Share Image
Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone. — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed… — Francesca Lia Block 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
“How shall I break up this numbness which discredits my sympathetic heart?” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I guess I should have reacted the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn't get myself to react. I… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn't and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
When we look squarely at injustice and get involved, we actually feel less pain, not more, because we overcome the gnawing guilt… — Desmond Tutu 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
Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I wanted to turn everything off, too. Just press a button - click - and shut myself down. Turn off my heart,… — Kevin Brooks 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
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
It was too much. The comfortable people made comfortable jokes about weather and things but I sat mostly silent saying a word… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I was not allowed to think of him. That was something I tried to be very strict about. Of course I slipped;… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I turned away from him and went on my way, up the street and about my business. The past was dead. The… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
I wish I could explain it so someone could understand it. I'm afraid it's something I can't put into words. There's just… — Kay Redfield Jamison 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
“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
Kill her for me," she said in that whiny little-girl voice. Diego took a step toward me, wearing an expression that told… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Personal voice- prophesy- disrupts the state of communal numbness in which most of us exist. — Walter Brueggemann 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
People talk about the pain of grief, but I don't know what they mean. To me, grief is a devastating numbness, every… — Veronica Roth 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
But what would that be like feeling the tide rise out of the numbness inside — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The pain lets you know you're ok. It's the numbness you should be concerned about. — Hussein Nishah 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
Your heart drops as you realize what the truth is, your body becomes frozen, and your mind creates a numbness that never… — Rachel Copy Share Image
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk. — Anonymous 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
“The only good thing, is that the cold wakes her up and she doesn’t have to struggle to stay conscious. The bad… — Amy Lunderman Copy Share Image
“I'll never let you brood over my numbness As long as your onion love I peel and cry I'll never let you… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“Numbness was a mere purgatory of gray. No, there was a much worse place. Darkness masquerading as enlightenment. It was a place… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“As he sat at his desk in his comfortable office armchair, he allowed his body to sink into a creeping state of… — Yasutaka Tsutsui 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
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
