{"quotes":[{"text":"Ties are straightened and expressions banished.","author":"Rana Dasgupta","tags":["capitalism","life-and-living","modernity","numb","numbness","solo"],"id":7739,"author_id":"Rana+Dasgupta"},{"text":"She cries,I laugh,She becomes numb,I become filled with joy,She slowly crumbles,I feel on top of the world,Yet somehow in the end,Out of the ashes,She rose like a Phoenix,As if nothing had ever touched her.","author":"Tanzy Sayadi","tags":["crumble","cry","joy","numb","poem","poetry","relationships"],"id":20394,"author_id":"Tanzy+Sayadi"},{"text":"I’ve perfected the art of the fake smile. It’s not so difficult when you are completely numb.","author":"Bethany Griffin","tags":["fake","numb","pain"],"id":23379,"author_id":"Bethany+Griffin"},{"text":"A torpid heart in agony needs a pen to bleed.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["agony","agony","bleed","bleeding-heart","heart","heart-of-a-poet","heartache","heartbroken","numb","pen","poet","quill","quiller","torpid","writer","writers"],"id":26865,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"When the thin line between love and hatred faded away completely, madness sprang back to life inside the numb hearts.","author":"Akshay Vasu","tags":["complete","hatred","hearts","line","love","madness","numb"],"id":34741,"author_id":"Akshay+Vasu"},{"text":"It was strange how in that moment of tragedy, it had seemed so unreal, like an old-fashioned movie reel playing on a screen for my eyes only. The pain and broken heart were blocked off for a little while, leaving me numb with disbelief. Shock is what Dad called it. But after a while, the cruel reality started to seep into my tissues, and my body became a sponge, just sucking it all up until, finally, there was so much grief inside, I couldn't help feeling it.That's how it happened for me. First, the numbness right after she died, next the agonising pain and then the place I was at now—the land of perpetual depression.","author":"Karen Ann Hopkins","tags":["death","depression","grief","numb","numbness","pain"],"id":46002,"author_id":"Karen+Ann+Hopkins"},{"text":"I don't sleep. I just let my body lie itself into numbness and lie to myself that I can't hear, see, or feel anything.","author":"Will Advise","tags":["body","feeling","feelings","functions","hearing","lie","lies","lying","nothing","numb","numbness","seeing","sleep","sleeping"],"id":46839,"author_id":"Will+Advise"},{"text":"All those men who end up disappointing you. After a while, you don't even want to have feelings anymore. You just want to get on with your life.","author":"Candace Bushnell","tags":["dating","disappointment","feelings","life","men","numb"],"id":53813,"author_id":"Candace+Bushnell"},{"text":"Detachment is not the absence of emotion, it is the process of becoming one with the Oneness that is the Universe. To be detached, is to realize that the fullness of all there is, is too much to react to with just one emotion, one thought, or any bias. To be detached, is to acknowledge all, without owning any of it. To be detached, is to summon forth the whole entirety of understanding, to the fragment that is the void.","author":"Justin K. McFarlane Beau","tags":["absence","acknowledge","detachement","emotion","epiphany","fragment","fullness","indifferent","knowledge","numb","oneness","realization","self-love","selfless","summoning","understanding","void","wholeness"],"id":54663,"author_id":"Justin+K.+McFarlane+Beau"},{"text":"Miranda was dark, like a midnight sky. But as she fell, her eyes shone like stars themselves.","author":"Dyls Downs","tags":["dark","death","deep","numb","sad"],"id":55447,"author_id":"Dyls+Downs"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":47,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}