Numbness Quotes
101 quotes by 85 authors
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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
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One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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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
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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
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He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.
— Dennis Lehane
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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
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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
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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
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Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.
— David Whyte
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My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.
— John Keats
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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
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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
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In general, it’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
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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
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When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard.
— Sylvia Plath
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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
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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
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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
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As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside.
— Haruki Murakami
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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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