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...	numb cold	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.	pain numb	Stephenie Meyer
91291eb	I was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view.	the-wind-up-bird-chronicle haruki-murakami numbness numb	haruki murakami
a8278c6	I lived my grief; I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears. I ignored all else.	mourning grief loss depression sorrow death life hollow pass-by numb mourn empty ignore tears forget	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.	mourning time loss depression sorrow start ending beginning coincide initiate lead mark sign numb mourn empty passage show end space	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.	tragedy pain woman depression emotion sorrow sadness ship devastation numb empty way storm peace cold disappointment	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.	pain depression sorrow stillness contemplate awaken full numb wakefulness remember	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.	deafness naivety blindness numb deaf	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.	numbness goodbyes numb goodbye	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,	sorrow no-turning-back james-baldwin leaving numb grieving sad	James Baldwin
618a9ee	Kayleigh was right. Without the pills, you really do feel nothing. And nothing can be nice.	as-they-slip-away kayleigh selene atu-series pills feeling nothing nothingness numb forgetting right drugs	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...

numb cold

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.

pain numb

Stephenie Meyer

91291eb

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

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

haruki murakami

a8278c6

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

pain depression sorrow stillness contemplate awaken full numb wakefulness remember

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.

deafness naivety blindness numb deaf

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.

numbness goodbyes numb goodbye

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,

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

James Baldwin

618a9ee

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

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

Beth Revis