Numbness Quotes

101 Numbness quotes by 85 unique authors

We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed. — Edmond Jabes
She examined me, she looked at me critically and said, "Why are you trying to starve yourself?" To keep myself from feeling love, from feeling… — Joyce Carol Oates
Your superhuman power was to be able not to feel. Is it there inside everybody, this self that comes out while you are in captivity?… — Heather O'Neill
It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there's a… — Susanna Kaysen
Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores… — Douglas Coupland
I felt a kind of numbness, an enervation, but more particularly an odd fragility - as if my body had actually become frail, hypersensitive and… — William Styron
I'm up all night against my will My medicine won't let me feel anything at all The doctor gave me sleeping pills and I took… — Joseph Arthur
He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at the cold sweating… — William Gibson
I am feeling fine. I remember these words and recite them. These are the things you say when asked how you are. After all, it… — Marya Hornbacher
Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others. — Margaret Atwood
She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed to be. — Francesca Lia Block
The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few… — Carson McCullers
Pain is always preferable to numbness. — Scott Anderson
Outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the warm, earthy world. Into a nest… — Sylvia Plath
Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone. — Tracy Chapman
And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying face of an unknown,… — Ray Bradbury
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the… — Virginia Woolf
How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive. — Kurt Vonnegut
The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb… — Jeanette Winterson
And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn't and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing... this… — Bret Easton Ellis
During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone ‘identified’ me. Then a… — Anna Akhmatova
Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past. — Jon Krakauer
Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the middle of the… — Banana Yoshimoto
I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever… — Margaret Atwood
Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness--these please me alone;… — Michelangelo

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