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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 felt before. She had so little experience with genuine anger that it scared her. She actually worried that if she started screaming, she'd never stop. -- Kristin Hannah
Absent the edge, we drown in numbness. -- David Whyte
He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness. -- Thomas Harris
I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars. -- Raymond Chandler
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain. -- William Faulkner
As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside. -- Haruki Murakami
But what would that be like feeling the tide rise out of the numbness inside -- David Whyte
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk. -- John Keats
In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed. -- Patrick Ness
Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past. -- Jon Krakauer
Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world. -- Lorrie Moore
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
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
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
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. -- Virginia Woolf
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
Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day numbness, silence. -- Anne Lamott
The numbness of his loss had passed, and the pain would hit me out of nowhere, doubling me over, racking my body with sobs. Where are you? I would cry out in my mind. Where have you gone? Of course, there was never any answer. -- Suzanne Collins
You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder, who felt their emotions floating away and just didn't care. I guess that's what's scariest: not caring about the loss. -- Douglas Coupland
He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at the cold sweating center of every drug deal. But now he'd found this warm thing, this chip of murder. Meat, some part of him said. It's the meat talking, ignore it. -- William Gibson
Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don't get back on track somehow, I'm dead, that's the sense I get. There isn't a single strong emotion inside me. -- Banana Yoshimoto
And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying face of an unknown, a street face, a newspaper image, and it was suddenly so very wrong that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman. -- Ray Bradbury
I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness. -- Augusten Burroughs
Pain is always preferable to numbness. -- Scott Anderson
A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind. -- John Dryden
One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Personal voice- prophesy- disrupts the state of communal numbness in which most of us exist. -- Walter Brueggemann
This behavior may...counteract feelings of'numbness'and depersonalization that aries duriing periods of extreme stress.-153 Girl,Interrupted -- Susanna Kaysen
I grow numb; I grow stiff. How shall I break up this numbness which discredits my sympathetic heart? -- Virginia Woolf
The same numbness and disappointment every day sends some people looking for something tragic for proof of life. -- Bryant McGill
He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope. -- Dennis Lehane
Wasn't it time she risked getting hurt again, instead of just accepting the numbness of never letting anyone in? -- Jeaniene Frost
I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added. -- Louise GluÌ?ck
I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence. -- Nick Cave
People talk about the pain of grief, but I don't know what they mean. To me, grief is a devastating numbness, every sensation dulled. -- Veronica Roth
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
Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. -- Sylvia Plath
No matter what feeling comes up - numbness, irritability, shame - if I let it arise and play itself through, I naturally open into wakefulness and care. -- Tara Brach
The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics as avoidance, numbness, and denials. -- Vanna Bonta
Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair. -- Adrienne Rich
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
The responses that environmentalists evoke - fear, anxiety, numbness, despair - are not helpful, even if they are understandable. It should be fascinating, even enthralling, to be in the milieu of environmental change. -- Paul Hawken
Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness--these please me alone; Then do not wake me, keep your voices low. -- Michelangelo
You've faced horrors in these past weeksI don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary. -- Tasha Alexander
You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary. -- Tasha Alexander
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... this didn't change anything. I imagine her smelling clean, like tea... -- Bret Easton Ellis

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