Hard time Quote by Danielle LaPorte

“She now felt an incessant and universal numbness.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“senses could be dulled, and you might withdraw into yourself, feeling numb and empty.”

— Burgess,, Wes

“She had been defeated by herself alone, and the sadness of it left a dark shadow in her heart. It further sapped her confidence…

— Yo Yo

“She wondered if it was similar to how people felt when they first took antidepressants and they lost their pain, but everything else felt…

— Liane Moriarty

“I felt confused, to some degree, by everything—but in a delayed manner, in that I seemed to be repeatedly realizing that I felt confused,…

— Tao Lin

“It’s a big shift. I don’t know quite how to explain it. Between wanting and not wanting, caring and not caring. Of course it’s…

— Donna Tartt

She looked around herself, disoriented, like she’d forgotten we were at lunch. Like she’d forgotten we were even at school-surprised that we were not…

— Stephenie Meyer

“She could remember feeling that disorienting first rush of love, as bright and light as if no one else had ever felt it, as…

— Lucy Dillon

“I would like to be able to say that I threw myself into the spirit of it all, but the truth is, I still…

— Mary Lawson

“He was gripped by what he could think of only as numbness, though he knew it was a feeling compounded of emotions so deep…

— John Williams

“The patient is surprised by feelings she would rather not have recognized, but now it is too late: Awareness of her own impulses has…

— Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child

“I felt disincarnate, cut loose from myself. How it would feel to be back in my body again I couldn’t imagine.”

— Donna Tartt