Numbness Quotes - Page 5

• Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day numbness, silence.

  Anne Lamott

  Grief, Next Day, Silence

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.65, Anchor

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

  Jeaniene Frost

  Hurt, Getting Hurt, Accepting

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• Just that, is one of those uncommon moments, those times when you don't wish for something else, for even one thing to be different; when you have no other needs or worries, where your insides are calm, and everything you were ever restless about, anything that had ever given you angst, is quieted to stillness. No steel ball in your chest, no breathless fear. No blue numbness of nearly passing out, no nagging doubts of the backstage mind. All of that, forgotten. It is just rightness, so rare.

  Deb Caletti

  Blue, Worry, Doubt

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• I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Emotion, Default, Furious

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.312, Macmillan

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• And in some way, Clary thought, he meant it, meant his gratitude. He had long ago lost the ability to distinguish between force and cooperation, between fear and willingness, between love and torture. And with that realization came a rush of numbness—what was the point of hating Valentine for being a monster when he didn’t even know he was one?

  Cassandra Clare

  Gratitude, Hate, Valentine

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1233, Simon and Schuster

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• You have to be nicer to me," I said. Again he laughed. "What? I'm the King of nice. What are you talking about?" "You have to be nicer to me or... or..." "Or what?" he said. Still Lars, still charming and jokey, but with a thread of fear. It snaked in and pierced my numbness and almost broke my resolve. Almost, but not quite. "Or I have ti break up with you." I whispered What was there more to say? Nothing. So I hung up.

  Lauren Myracle

  Kings, Nice, Talking

  Lauren Myracle (2008). “Thirteen”, p.149, Penguin

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• Kill her for me," she said in that whiny little-girl voice. Diego took a step toward me, wearing an expression that told me he was only too happy to oblige his lady love. "Oh, what?" I said. I wasn't even scared. I didn't care anymore. The numbness in my heart had pretty much taken over my whole body. "You always do what she tells you? You know, we have a word for that now. It's called being whipped.

  Meg Cabot

  Girl, Taken, Heart

  Meg Cabot (2009). “The Mediator #4: Darkest Hour”, p.169, Zondervan

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• I want someone to pinch me so I can feel something, anything. I'm sick of this numbness, of feeling so alone and outside of everything, but I know it's too dangerous to wake up." —Ruth Mendenberg

  Carol Matas

  Sick, Feelings, Ruth

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

  Susanna Kaysen

  Girl, Stress, Feelings

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