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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… — 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… — Hanif Kureishi
• Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but… — 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… — Ariel Dorfman
• I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me;… — 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… — 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… — David Abram
• When we look squarely at injustice and get involved, we actually feel less pain, not more, because we overcome the gnawing guilt… — Desmond Tutu

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