Numbness Quotes - Page 2

• Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

  William Faulkner

  Depression, Pain, Choices

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• Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.

  Margaret Atwood

  Winning, Suffering Of Others, Emptiness

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “The Robber Bride”, p.256, Anchor

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• He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.

  Dennis Lehane

  Depression, Weary, Clinicals

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• In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

  Patrick Ness

  Boys, World, Information

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• 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

  Love, Past, Space

  "Into the Wild". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• I wanted to turn everything off, too. Just press a button - click - and shut myself down. Turn off my heart, turn off my mind, turn off my body - just lie there, senseless, like a dormant tree in winter, waiting for the spring to return.

  Kevin Brooks

  Spring, Lying, Heart

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• Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.

  David Whyte

  Absent, Edges

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• I am feeling fine. I remember these words and recite them. These are the things you say when asked how you are. After all, it would be odd to say: I'm not feeling. Or, more to the point: I'm not, I have ceased to be. Where am I?

  Marya Hornbacher

  Feelings, Would Be, Emptiness

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Madness: A Bipolar Life”, p.198, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are those, however, that are not frightened of grief: dropping deep into the sorrow, they find therein a necessary elixir to the numbness. When they encounter one another, when they press their foreheads against the bark of a centuries-old tree...their eyes well with tears that fall easily to the ground. The soil needs this water. Grief is but a gate, and our tears a kind of key opening a place of wonder thats been locked away. Suddenly we notice a sustaining resonance between the drumming heart within our chest and the pulse rising from the ground

  David Abram

  Fall, Grief, Eye

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• One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Grief, Bears, Periods

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1973). “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1929-1932”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• We don't exist unless there is someone who can see us existing, what we say has no meaning until someone can understand, while to be surrounded by friends is constantly to have our identity confirmed; their knowledge and care for us have the power to pull us from our numbness. In small comments, many of them teasing, they reveal they know our foibles and except them and so, in turn, accept that we have a place in the world.

  Alain de Botton

  Identity, World, Care

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, 2000.

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• Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Violence, Calm, Feels

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• 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

  Caring, Loss, Thinking

  Douglas Coupland (2010). “Player One”, p.99, Random House

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• You can live without me." "I don't want to." I feared a love like this - that made us incomplete without each other. It was beautiful but treacherous, like snow that looked white and pure and lovely from the safety of your window, but when you stepped out to touch the softness, the cold first stole your breath, and then your will to move, until you could just lay down in it and let the numbness take you. yet I didn't want to be without him either, so I didn't chide him for the statement.

  Ann Aguirre

  Beautiful, Moving, White

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• Her heart began to ache, and she felt the numbness slip away. Misery welled up inside her. She clamped down on it, trying to hold onto the deadness that had blanketed her emotions for the past few days.

  Lili Wilkinson

  Heart, Past, Trying

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• 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

  Self, Able, Captivity

  Heather O'Neill (2014). “Lullabies for Little Criminals”, p.139, Hachette UK

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• I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.

  Sylvia Plath

  Moving, Eye, Feminism

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.3, Hamilton Books

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• As from a star I saw, coldly and soberly, the separateness of everything. I felt the wall of my skin; I am I. That stone is a stone. My beautiful fusion with the things of this world was over.

  Sylvia Plath

  Beautiful, Stars, Wall

  Sylvia Plath (1994). “Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams”

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• 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

  People, Soul, Inward

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2280, Delphi Classics

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

  Edmond Jabes

  Distance, Emptiness, Speak

  Edmond Jabès (1993). “The Book of Margins”, p.174, University of Chicago Press

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• Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone.

  Tracy Chapman

  Skins, Body, Essentials

  Song: Remember The Tinman, Album: New Beginning, 1995

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• But what would that be like
  feeling the tide rise
  out of the numbness inside

  David Whyte

  Feelings, Tides

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• She examined me, she looked at me critically and said, "Why are you trying to starve yourself?" To keep myself from feeling love, from feeling lust, from feeling anything at all.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Lust, Feelings, Trying

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• A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind.

  John Dryden

  Lazy, Mind, Frost

  John Dryden, C. B., Esquire Charles BATHURST (1852). “Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]”, p.128

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• There's a numbness in our culture to the continuing horrors of genocide.

  Anne Waldman

  Culture, Horror, Genocide

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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