Numbness Quotes

101 quotes by 85 authors

It was, just as Kinski had predicted, suicide. He should never have done it. It is widely held by those who knew him, and Kinski… — Cintra Wilson
One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability to get out… — Hanif Kureishi
Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless… — Sylvia Plath
He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope. — Dennis Lehane
Torture presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others suffering, dehumanizing them so much that their pain is not our… — Ariel Dorfman
I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety,… — Frederic Chopin
There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good… — Douglas Coupland
Absent the edge, we drown in numbness. — David Whyte
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk. — John Keats
There are those, however, that are not frightened of grief: dropping deep into the sorrow, they find therein a necessary elixir to the numbness. When… — David Abram
When we look squarely at injustice and get involved, we actually feel less pain, not more, because we overcome the gnawing guilt and despair that… — Desmond Tutu
In general, itâ€™s not too hard to corrupt an American, mostly a matter of supply to their demand. Supply should be variegated to encourage the… — Geoffrey Wood
As from a star I saw, coldly and soberly, the separateness of everything. I felt the wall of my skin; I am I. That stone… — Sylvia Plath
When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard. — Sylvia Plath
The airy sky has taken its place leaning against the wall. It is like a prayer to what is empty And what is empty turns… — Tomas Transtromer
And so I am feeling numb. It's a curious feeling, and I get it all the time. My attention to the world around me disappears,… — Marya Hornbacher
My main goal is to stay alive. To keep fooling myself into hanging around. To keep getting up every day. Right now I live without… — Henry Rollins
As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside. — Haruki Murakami
Of course there is nothing the matter with the stars It is my emptiness among them While they drift farther away in the invisible morning — W S Merwin

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