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numbness identity world
We don't exist unless there is someone who can see us existing, what we say has no meaning until someone can understand, while to be surrounded by friends is constantly to have our identity confirmed; their knowledge and care for us have the power to pull us from our numbness. In small comments, many of them teasing, they reveal they know our foibles and except them and so, in turn, accept that we have a place in the world. Alain de Botton
numbness violence calm
Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
numbness emotion default
I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness. Augusten Burroughs
numbness feelings world
There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it. Douglas Coupland
numbness tea imagine
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... Bret Easton Ellis
numbness feelings would-be
I am feeling fine. I remember these words and recite them. These are the things you say when asked how you are. After all, it would be odd to say: I'm not feeling. Or, more to the point: I'm not, I have ceased to be. Where am I? Marya Hornbacher
numbness voice water
And so I am feeling numb. It's a curious feeling, and I get it all the time. My attention to the world around me disappears, and something starts to hum inside my head. Far off, voices try to bump up against me, but I repel them. My ears fill up with water and I focus on the humming in my head.
numbness littles shells
She still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike anything she'd felt before. She had so little experience with genuine anger that it scared her. She actually worried that if she started screaming, she'd never stop. Kristin Hannah
numbness despair wish
I wish I could explain it so someone could understand it. I'm afraid it's something I can't put into words. There's just this heavy, overwhelming despair - dreading everything. Dreading life. Empty inside, to the point of numbness. It's like there's something already dead inside. My whole being has been pulling back into that void for months. (81) Kay Redfield Jamison
despair stoic grows
The Stoic assures us that what is happening now will happen over and over again. [If so, Providende would] ultimately grow weary through despair. Bertrand Russell
despair hope
Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
despair madness nor yesterday
Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare; tomorrow's Silence, Triumph, or Despair: Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where Edward Fitzgerald
despair final lesson thoroughly volume
To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair. Edgar Allan Poe
despair dream given illusion life love shield vanity
Nevertheless, love was given to us not only as fulfilment, as ideal, but as suffering, hopelessness, despair too. Is it all this the shield of this vanity called dream of our life or Illusion of Life?
despairing effect expression extent formal means people politics suspicious
I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they are disengaged from the formal political process. To some extent they are suspicious or even despairing of formal politics as a means to give expression and effect to what they want. John Bercow
despairing god knowledge man senseless suffer understanding
God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless; and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless Saint Augustine
despair surrender never-surrender
Never despair. Never surrender. Alan Moore
despair load
It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair. Chinua Achebe
wish want firsts
The first day of the rest of my life, and I’m not sure I want to be here. I know I should be thanking somebody for this, but I really don’t feel like it. Instead, I wish they hadn’t bothered. Cecelia Ahern
wish mars reason
Whatever the reason you're on Mars, I'm glad you're there, and I wish I was with you. Carl Sagan
wish prejudice cosmos
Those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.
wish sitting lasts
It is my last wish to be burried sitting up. Bette Davis
wish helping enjoy
I do enjoy them. I get to meet the next generation of comics and help them out. Big comics doing small shows was something that used to happen a lot more back in the day. I wish there was more of that. Bill Burr
wish would-be leisure
The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.
wish causes typical
The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment; the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible.
wish world common
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation ... it is common to wish well to oneself, but in our technically unified world, wishing well to oneself is sure to be futile unless it is combined with wishing well to others.
wish ifs seeing
If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.