Quotes about Numbness

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At such moments the collapse of their courage, willpower, and endurance was so abrupt that they felt they could never dr — Albert Camus, The Plague
I have outlasted all desire,My dreams and I have grown apart;My grief alone is left entire,The gleamings of an empty hea — Alexander Pushkin
I thought about suicide all the time, but it seemed toomuch effort, swallowing all those pills or jumping off things. If — Helena Dela, The Count
I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here. — Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems
After great pain, a formal feeling comes – The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs – The stiff Heart questions was it He, — Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems
You think being dead inside is bad until someone brings you back to life and stabs you in the chest without the intentio — Denice Envall
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butc — Bertolt Brecht, Selected Poems
The worst feelings are the warm, anxious burning that portends your heart breaking followed by the wave of numbness that — Ken Poirot
Art can blow us out of our pigeon hole. In deafness it may shout or scream, in blindness it may arrest our attention, in — Erik Pevernagie
Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
.."I let people walk away, the one who loved me, the one who cares for me, I push them to their limits but the saddest p — gracetamio
Oddly, the burned hand didn't seem to hurt much anymore; it was only numb. It would have been better if there had been p — Stephen King, 'Salem's Lot
Pleasure and pain are on the same side of the coin of human experience. The opposite is indifference or numbness. — R. N. Prasher
When our mental functioning is whittling away and our mind becomes a lame duck, perception does not form the context any — Erik Pevernagie
To distort our faces with joy, or wail and weep with sorrow, or collapse in agony, or wallow in sentimentality – wasn’t — Ryū Murakami, Audition
Dissociation is numbness and nothingness; it is a feeling of being lost; it is floating on a cloud that threatens to suf — Noel Hunter
I wasn't glad that I hadn't died. And I wasn't sad that I hadn't. I wasn't anything. — Kathleen Rooney, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
Depression means self-loathing, self-disgust, and the kind of emotional numbness that feels like psychic death. — William Deresiewicz, Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
It was strange how in that moment of tragedy, it had seemed so unreal, like an old-fashioned movie reel playing on a scr — Karen Ann Hopkins, Temptation
Ties are straightened and expressions banished. — Rana Dasgupta, Solo