Loss Quote by Thomas Harris

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

She still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike anything she'd…

— Kristin Hannah

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things,…

— Douglas Coupland

“We conform to pain until we don't notice it anymore; it's what you call — numb — and it tragically blots out our pleasure too.”

— Bryant McGill

“I was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view.”

— haruki murakami

The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you…

— Jeanette Winterson

“It was strange how in that moment of tragedy, it had seemed so unreal, like an old-fashioned movie reel playing on a screen for…

— Karen Ann Hopkins

It was too much. The comfortable people made comfortable jokes about weather and things but I sat mostly silent saying a word or so…

— Charles Bukowski

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...…

— Bret Easton Ellis

I turned away from him and went on my way, up the street and about my business. The past was dead. The future was…

— Cornell Woolrich

I grow numb; I grow stiff. How shall I break up this numbness which discredits my sympathetic heart?

— Virginia Woolf

And so I am feeling numb. It's a curious feeling, and I get it all the time. My attention to the world around me…

— Marya Hornbacher