Quote by Guy Vanderhaeghe

“Sometimes I feel entirely disassociated from what I do. It's a malady of the modern age.”

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“It is a sad moment when I sit back and take a critical inventory of my life. I have never allowed myself to dwell…

— Alessandra Torre

“I felt ancient and exhausted. I felt like a prisoner within myself and as if I was just watching a movie that was playing…

— J M Northup

“But it was the first time I had ever really used the place I knew and the things I felt in a piece of…

— Stephen King

“Of course I alienate myself from society. It's the only way I know of not being constantly reminded of all the ways I'm alienated…

— Joshua Ferris

“I feel nothing except a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.”

— Anonymous

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

— Burgess,, Wes

“I suppose it's comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare to inflict.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“I am having a crisis, she thought. I suddenly feel a new fragile sense of myself in this world and it's unbearable.”

— Meg Wolitzer

“Pretending to be a normal, functioning member of society is exhausting stuff.”

— Lia Riley

“I feel something change in me... I feel a flat calm, a detachment, the way I get when something is too much and yet…

— Patricia Cornwell

“I have always felt terrible inside. The reasons for this keep changing.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz