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 believe that you've created a metaphorical universe in which you can express your darkest fears. In one aspect, yes, I believe… — Laurie Halse Anderson 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
“When the murmuring of love swells the river of our inner and overflows the boundaries of our emotions, the banks of oblivion… — Erik Pevernagie 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
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
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
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 don't want to breathe, I don't want to see, I don't want to talk, I don't want to walk, I don't… — Jasmine Laura 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
“I’m still depressed, but how depressed I am varies, which is good. Much of the time, it’s a comfortable numbness that just… — Allie Brosh 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
“Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to Hey… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
There is a curious comfort in letting go. After the agony, letting go brings numbness, and after the numbness, clarity. As if… — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
You can live without me." "I don't want to." I feared a love like this - that made us incomplete without each… — Ann Aguirre 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
Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the… — Banana Yoshimoto 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'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know… — Fernando Pessoa 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
I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Once you lose your parents, you get this numbness, this feeling of having to really be able to connect yourself with someone.… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
I felt a kind of numbness, an enervation, but more particularly an odd fragility - as if my body had actually become… — William Styron Copy Share Image
In general, it’s not too hard to corrupt an American, mostly a matter of supply to their demand. Supply should be variegated… — 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
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
“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
“If I could open a vein. Not to inject any shit, I will never weaken like that again, but just to feel… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The numbness of his loss had passed, and the pain would hit me out of nowhere, doubling me over, racking my body… — Suzanne Collins 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
I'm up all night against my will My medicine won't let me feel anything at all The doctor gave me sleeping pills… — Joseph Arthur Copy Share Image
“...too weary and dazed by unfinished sleep even to swear. There comes a degree of numbness in fatigue and exasperation which can… — Humphrey Cobb Copy Share Image
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
This morning I suddenly catch myself: I'm not there, I'm so lost in thought, I don't know what's going on around me.… — Anna Kamienska Copy Share Image
You have to be nicer to me," I said. Again he laughed. "What? I'm the King of nice. What are you talking… — Lauren Myracle 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
Every parent who has ever said a few words over a goldfish in a toilet bowl or felt the numbness of an… — Lori Borgman Copy Share Image
My main goal is to stay alive. To keep fooling myself into hanging around. To keep getting up every day. Right now… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
