Quotes by Numbness He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope. Dennis Lehane weary numbness depression When we look squarely at injustice and get involved, we actually feel less pain, not more, because we overcome the gnawing guilt and despair that festers under our numbness. We clean the wound - our own and others' - and it can finally heal. Desmond Tutu numbness pain guilt Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores once, but hucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow. Douglas Coupland numbness believe people 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, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it. Douglas Coupland numbness feelings world I have carpal tunnel so I can't write more than four hours total without tingling numbness. I take a lot of breaks and do stretches. Eden Robinson numbness tunnels writing We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed. Edmond Jabes numbness emptiness distance Apathy is a spiritual numbness that creeps in and corrupts the good that God intends for our life and the good that He wants us to accomplish for Him and His kingdom. Elizabeth George numbness apathy spiritual There is a level of grief so deep that it stops resembling grief at all. The pain becomes so severe that the body can no longer feel it. The grief cauterizes itself, scars over, prevents inflated feeling. Such numbness is a kind of mercy. Elizabeth Gilbert numbness pain grief I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know who's seeking me. My boredom with everything has numbed me. I feel banished from my soul. Fernando Pessoa numbness boredom soul She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed to be. Francesca Lia Block numbness dolls mouths There is a feeling of disbelief that comes over you, that takes over, and you kind of go through the motions. You do what you're supposed to do, but in fact you're not there at all. Frederick Barthelme numbness over-you feelings In general, it's not too hard to corrupt an American, mostly a matter of supply to their demand. Supply should be variegated to encourage the Illusion of Choice. Other than that they're looking for numbness, so be ready to sedate. Drugs, booze, television, shopping, etc. Geoffrey Wood numbness shopping choices I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling. Haruki Murakami together-again numbness feelings Your superhuman power was to be able not to feel. Is it there inside everybody, this self that comes out while you are in captivity? You become the closest approximation of yourself that can tolerate living there. Heather O'Neill numbness able self Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone. Haruki Murakami bitter numbness emptiness As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside. Haruki Murakami numbness long moving 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 there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything. Haruki Murakami numbness ocean night She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head. Janet Fitch detachment numbness emptiness I almost said, you're not broken, you're just going through something. But i couldn't. She knew. There was something terribly wrong with her, all the way inside. She was like a big diamond with a dead spot in the middle. I was supposed to breathe life into that dead spot, but it hadn't worked. Janet Fitch numbness broken way The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive. Jeanette Winterson numbness leaving waiting «12345»
