numb

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
a40bd9f	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...	cold numb	Bret Easton Ellis
4658cfa	I was not allowed to think of him. That was something I tried to be very strict about. Of course I slipped; I was only human. But I was getting better, and so the pain was something I could avoid for days at a time now. The trade-off was the never-ending numbness. Between pain and nothing, I'd chosen nothing.	numb pain	Stephenie Meyer
91291eb	I was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view.	haruki-murakami numb numbness the-wind-up-bird-chronicle	haruki murakami
a8278c6	I lived my grief; I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears. I ignored all else.	death depression empty forget grief hollow ignore life loss mourn mourning numb pass-by sorrow tears	Robin Hobb
e5dd3f7	There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything else has ended and nothing else can ever begin.	beginning coincide depression empty end ending initiate lead loss mark mourn mourning numb passage show sign sorrow space start time	Robin Hobb
c4fb77c	He thought perhaps it was a woman's way, to come out of such a storm of emotion and pain as if she were a ship emerging onto calm seas. She had seemed, not at peace, but emptied of sorrow. As if she had run out of that particular emotion and no other one arose to take its place.	cold depression devastation disappointment emotion empty numb pain peace sadness ship sorrow storm tragedy way woman	Robin Hobb
2b29eae	In the dead of night I stirred. Wakefulness flowed back into me. I was a cup full of sorrow, but that sorrow was stilled, like a pain that abates as long as one does not move.	awaken contemplate depression full numb pain remember sorrow stillness wakefulness	Robin Hobb
7e2900c	Or you may be such a thunderingly exalted creature as to be altogether deaf and blind to anything but heavenly sights and sounds. Then the earth for you is only a standing place- whether to be like this is your loss or your gain I won't pretend to say.	blindness deaf deafness naivety numb	Joseph Conrad
1f3ca1b	I was last. Sam walked up and held me for a long time. Finally, she whispered in my ear. She said a lot of wonderful things about how it was okay that I wasn't ready last night and how she would miss me and how she wanted me to take care of myself while she was gone. 'You're my best friend,' was all I could say in return. She smiled and kissed my cheek, and it was like for a moment, the bad part of last night disappeared. But it still felt like a goodbye rather than a 'see ya.' The thing was, I didn't cry. I didn't know what I felt. Finally, Sam climbed into her pickup, and Patrick started it up. And a great song was playing. And everyone smiled. Including me. But I wasn't there anymore.	goodbye goodbyes numb numbness	Stephen Chbosky
a1ffc5b	And with every step I took it became more impossible for me to turn back. And my mind was empty--or it was as though my mind had become one enormous, anaesthetized wound. I thought only,	grieving james-baldwin leaving no-turning-back numb sad sorrow	James Baldwin
618a9ee	Kayleigh was right. Without the pills, you really do feel nothing. And nothing can be nice.	as-they-slip-away atu-series drugs feeling forgetting kayleigh nothing nothingness numb pills right selene	Beth Revis

a40bd9f

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...

cold numb

Bret Easton Ellis

4658cfa

I was not allowed to think of him. That was something I tried to be very strict about. Of course I slipped; I was only human. But I was getting better, and so the pain was something I could avoid for days at a time now. The trade-off was the never-ending numbness. Between pain and nothing, I'd chosen nothing.

numb pain

Stephenie Meyer

91291eb

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

haruki-murakami numb numbness the-wind-up-bird-chronicle

haruki murakami

a8278c6

I lived my grief; I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears. I ignored all else.

death depression empty forget grief hollow ignore life loss mourn mourning numb pass-by sorrow tears

Robin Hobb

e5dd3f7

There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything else has ended and nothing else can ever begin.

beginning coincide depression empty end ending initiate lead loss mark mourn mourning numb passage show sign sorrow space start time

Robin Hobb

c4fb77c

He thought perhaps it was a woman's way, to come out of such a storm of emotion and pain as if she were a ship emerging onto calm seas. She had seemed, not at peace, but emptied of sorrow. As if she had run out of that particular emotion and no other one arose to take its place.

cold depression devastation disappointment emotion empty numb pain peace sadness ship sorrow storm tragedy way woman

Robin Hobb

2b29eae

In the dead of night I stirred. Wakefulness flowed back into me. I was a cup full of sorrow, but that sorrow was stilled, like a pain that abates as long as one does not move.

awaken contemplate depression full numb pain remember sorrow stillness wakefulness

Robin Hobb

7e2900c

Or you may be such a thunderingly exalted creature as to be altogether deaf and blind to anything but heavenly sights and sounds. Then the earth for you is only a standing place- whether to be like this is your loss or your gain I won't pretend to say.

blindness deaf deafness naivety numb

Joseph Conrad

1f3ca1b

I was last. Sam walked up and held me for a long time. Finally, she whispered in my ear. She said a lot of wonderful things about how it was okay that I wasn't ready last night and how she would miss me and how she wanted me to take care of myself while she was gone. 'You're my best friend,' was all I could say in return. She smiled and kissed my cheek, and it was like for a moment, the bad part of last night disappeared. But it still felt like a goodbye rather than a 'see ya.' The thing was, I didn't cry. I didn't know what I felt. Finally, Sam climbed into her pickup, and Patrick started it up. And a great song was playing. And everyone smiled. Including me. But I wasn't there anymore.

goodbye goodbyes numb numbness

Stephen Chbosky

a1ffc5b

And with every step I took it became more impossible for me to turn back. And my mind was empty--or it was as though my mind had become one enormous, anaesthetized wound. I thought only,

grieving james-baldwin leaving no-turning-back numb sad sorrow

James Baldwin

618a9ee

Kayleigh was right. Without the pills, you really do feel nothing. And nothing can be nice.

as-they-slip-away atu-series drugs feeling forgetting kayleigh nothing nothingness numb pills right selene

Beth Revis