“There is a place in the heart that will never be filled and we will wait and wait in that space.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”— J. K. Rowling, amazon.com
“I could think of nothing, nothing to say, nothing to feel. My mind was empty.”— S. J. Watson, amazon.com
“I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more.”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“I’ve just got to let myself feel the pain, because if I don’t, if I keep numbing it, it’ll never really go away.”— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com
“Sometimes my emotional switch remains off. You can't get hurt if you feel nothing.”— R.H. Sin, amazon.com
“I just tell myself to be happy. But I don't feel happy. And when I try to change it, when I try to remember what being happy felt like, I can't. I don't feel joy. I don't feel inspired. I just feel numb.”— Haley James Scott, amazon.com
“And I’ve just got to let myself feel the pain, because if I don’t, if I keep numbing it, it’ll never really go away.”— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com