Detachment Quote by Ray Bradbury

You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became…

— Douglas Coupland

Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true…

— Douglas Coupland

I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is…

— Haruki Murakami

I believe that you've created a metaphorical universe in which you can express your darkest fears. In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts,…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.

— Janet Fitch

Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you…

— Lorrie Moore

My main goal is to stay alive. To keep fooling myself into hanging around. To keep getting up every day. Right now I live…

— Henry Rollins

... when he kissed her, she received the kiss without returning it, her eyes wide open, not afraid, not a virgin's eyes, just flat…

— Tim O'Brien

I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.

— Raymond Chandler

I felt a kind of numbness, an enervation, but more particularly an odd fragility - as if my body had actually become frail, hypersensitive…

— William Styron

Pain is always preferable to numbness.

— Scott Anderson

We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.

— Edmond Jabes