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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
littles harder hard
Don't be so hard on yourself. Be a little harder on yourself. Learn from your experiences. Don't dwell on things. Get on with your life. Cathy Moriarty
littles want left
All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left. Cecil Beaton
littles analysis boring
What's the harm of a little mystification? It sure beats boring statistical analyses. Carl Sagan
littles needs sometimes
The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by. Berkeley Breathed
littles way program
Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication. Bill Budge
littles statistics might
Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be. Bertrand Russell
littles woe bliss
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss! Petrarch
littles kind
A little more than kin, a little less than kind. William Shakespeare
littles bits little-bit
It gets a little bit troublesome when you have something that's overcompressed that shouldn't be. Beck
shells littles likes
I know I come off like a very outgoing person, and yeah, I'm outgoing, but there's also a part of me that still likes to be in my little shell sometimes. Ashley Tisdale
shells dutch royal
Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures - they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it's much harder to spot problems at companies like Royal Dutch [Shell]. Charlie Munger
shells who-we-are
What we wear is the shell of who we are. Audrey Tautou
shells young young-women
Young women say I helped them come out of their shells Bettie Page
shells trouble force
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it? C. S. Lewis
shells creation let-me
If I, this mortal shell, am going to die, let me at least live on through my creations. J. M. Coetzee
shells shooting bullets
Oftentimes, the only evidence left behind at the scene of a shooting are bullet shell casings. Grace Meng
shells body
My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body. Eva Zeisel
shells stories clamor
Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word! Gaston Bachelard