Quotes tagged ‘Numbness’

“My grief and introspection terrifies them... drives Gemma mad. Clay's pity has moved into profound loathing. I see my best friend and my wife growing closer and closer. I have no jealousy, truly. I feel nothing. Not even fear, and I know I should be afraid.”

— Regina Corrado, Dave Erickson, Kurt Sutter, John Teller, Nicholas Guest, imdb.com

“I am not afraid of an argument. Get emotional. Get angry. Spit language venom. Be unrelenting and cruel with your words if you feel you have to be. Because above all else I am terrified of the silence. Of things becoming so passionless between us there is no longer anything left worth fighting for.”

— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com

“Miss someone until they come back, or until you come back, until their absence in your life becomes something to be avoided at all costs. Miss them until you don’t have to anymore, until you’re reunited in your favorite booth in your favorite restaurant ordering your favorite meal, miss them until i…”

— Stephanie Georgopulus, thoughtcatalog.com

“How nice — to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com

“Still, being able to feel pain was good, he thought. It’s when you can’t even feel pain anymore that you’re in real trouble.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“There is a place in the heart that will never be filled; a space. And even during the best moments, and the greatest times, we will know it.”

— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com

“Years ago I cared. Now I don’t. I know I am lost but I don’t want to be found.”

— Henry Rollins, amazon.com

“Yet abuse is attention, which habituates one to defeat and numbness.”

— Selma Nemer, amazon.com

“Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“I don’t know. I just feel stuck, like I’m afraid to take any steps, in case they’re the wrong ones.”

— Rebecca Stead, amazon.com

“She was too tired to feel anything more, she wanted a book to do to her what books did: take away the world, slide it aside for a little bit, and let her please, please just be somewhere and somebody else.”

— Lev Grossman, amazon.com

“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”

— Mother Teresa, amazon.com

“So much light and so empty.”

— Franz Kafka, amazon.com

“I’m numb and I’m tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I’d been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I’m soaked to the skin with emotion.”

— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com

“Life just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can’t be hurt ever any more. That’s the last and worst thing it does.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“I am not actually tired, but numb and heavy, and can’t find the right words. All I can say is: Stay with me, don’t leave me.”

— Franz Kafka, amazon.com

“After awhile you could get used to anything.”

— Albert Camus, amazon.com

“Your numbness isn't feeling nothing, it's feeling everything and never having learned to process anything at all.”

— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com

“It would have broken my heart if it hadn't been so damn familiar. I guess I'd gotten numb to that sort of thing. I had heart-leather like walruses got blubber.”

— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com