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This morning I suddenly catch myself: I'm not there, I'm so lost in thought, I don't know what's going on around me. Can you think yourself to death? — Anna Kamienska

Absent the edge, we drown in numbness. — David Whyte

I feel something else break through the numbness. Something raw. Something primal. Something visceral. — Sam A. Patel

Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Depression means self-loathing, self-disgust, and the kind of emotional numbness that feels like psychic death. — William Deresiewicz

Oddly, the burned hand didn't seem to hurt much anymore; it was only numb. It would have been better if there had been pain. Pain was at least real. — Stephen King

I was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view. — Haruki Murakami

She wanted something she didn't have words for- peace, numbness, something. — Melissa Marr

Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain. — Margaret Atwood

Then Jess gave himself over to the numbness that was buzzing to be let out from a corner of his brain. — Katherine Paterson

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

For this nirvana, I willingly
give in to the numbness of
my wrist. — A.P. Sweet

This behavior may ... counteract feelings of'numbness'and depersonalization that aries duriing periods of extreme stress.-153 Girl,Interrupted — Susanna Kaysen

Physical pain was easy. It would always pass in the end. All it needed was time - a ticking clock. — Sidney Knight

The thought came creeping, just as the numbness came creeping, stealing over his senses, softly, smoothly, there in the silken silence. — Robert Bloch

Once I was free; there was no cage that could bind me, and I had yet to create my box of numbness within my mind to be my silent protector. — J.D. Stroube

Mosca had never tasted power before. It was a little like the feeling the gin had given her, but without the bitterness and the numbness in her nose. — Frances Hardinge

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

I wasn't glad that I hadn't died. And I wasn't sad that I hadn't. I wasn't anything. — Kathleen Rooney

One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Sometimes you feel things so much, so intensely, it becomes a new kind of numbness, the oblivion of overstimulation. — Leah Raeder

I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness. — Augusten Burroughs

He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness. — Thomas Harris

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

Art is the antidote that can call us back from the edge of numbness, restoring the ability to feel for another. — Barbara Kingsolver

How shall I break up this numbness which discredits my sympathetic heart? — Virginia Woolf

Numbness was what I craved. It was the rope I used to climb out of the black hole I'd otherwise be trapped in. Numbness was my savior, not my fear. — Bella Forrest

Pain is always preferable to numbness. — Scott Anderson

How much had I missed in these months of despair and numbness? — Sarah J. Maas

You took away the numbness. You made me remember how to feel, how to care about someone other than myself. — Kelly Oram

Ties are straightened and expressions banished. — Rana Dasgupta

Eventually, however, the denial turned into emptiness and my childhood ended. — Floyd C. Forsberg

But what would that be like
feeling the tide rise
out of the numbness inside — David Whyte

...He called up the numbness with which he armed himself to get through each day. — Sandra Brown

When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard. — Sylvia Plath

I felt so many things at once that together, they combined to make nothing, a numbness, an absence of feeling caused by a surplus of feeling. — Hanya Yanagihara

Numbness spread, allowing him to move his arms without the stabbing agony that had had him bathed in sweat over the last few hours. — Steven Erikson

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

Numbness is not happiness. — Marty Rubin

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

I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added. — Louise Gluck

Numbness and cynicism, I suspect, are more often the products of frustrated compassion than of evil intentions. — David Hilfiker

I don't sleep. I just let my body lie itself into numbness and lie to myself that I can't hear, see, or feel anything. — Will Advise

Between blow and pain, there is that instant of numbness, an unreal moment ... — Parke Godwin

This was my first conscious barter. Trading pain for the closest vice, I slipped into a knowing numbness. Prayer seemed an impotent remedy — Seth Haines

Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others. — Margaret Atwood

A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind. — John Dryden

Without love everything can be nothing. Does that make me want to love? No. For me, Ignorance is still better than martyrdom. — Ira N. Barin

When things don't go the way you want them to, sometimes instead of feeling disappointment or heartache, you just become numb. — April Mae Monterrosa

Numb the dark and you numb the light. — Brene Brown

He was numb: heart-numb, mind-numb, soul-numb. And the numbness, he realized, went a long way down, and a long way back. — Neil Gaiman

Of course there is nothing the matter with the stars It is my emptiness among them While they drift farther away in the invisible morning — W.S. Merwin

Crossing the Ring of Fire is..moving from the emotional shutdown of numbness through the flames of fear and entering into the healing arms of change. — David W. Earle

Someone who would bear my shock, reflect back my outrage, so I could see it better, feel more than this electric numbness. — Jennie Fields

The same numbness and disappointment every day sends some people looking for something tragic for proof of life. — Bryant McGill

Personal voice- prophesy- disrupts the state of communal numbness in which most of us exist. — Walter Brueggemann

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

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

Wasn't it time she risked getting hurt again, instead of just accepting the numbness of never letting anyone in? — Jeaniene Frost

But now and then, beneath the outer numbness, something stirred, like a living pain waiting for the anesthetic to wear away. — Zilpha Keatley Snyder

I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here. — Sylvia Plath

I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence. — Nick Cave

We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed. — Edmond Jabes

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