{"quotes":[{"text":"You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.","author":"Tasha Alexander","tags":["experience","horror","numbness","terror","tragedy"],"id":1243,"author_id":"Tasha+Alexander"},{"text":"You think being dead inside is bad until someone brings you back to life and stabs you in the chest without the intention of killing you.","author":"Denice Envall","tags":["depression","depression","feelings","hurt","numbness","relationships","sadness","unrequited-love"],"id":4176,"author_id":"Denice+Envall"},{"text":"Depression means self-loathing, self-disgust, and the kind of emotional numbness that feels like psychic death.","author":"William Deresiewicz","tags":["depression","emotions","numbness"],"id":5897,"author_id":"William+Deresiewicz"},{"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":"To distort our faces with joy, or wail and weep with sorrow, or collapse in agony, or wallow in sentimentality – wasn’t an inviolable human trait but something we can lose simply by leading dull and dreary lives. ‘A rich emotional life,’ she’d written, ‘is a privilege reserved only for the daring few’.","author":"Ryū Murakami","tags":["emotion","emotions","feelings","happiness","life","living","numbness","sadness"],"id":28266,"author_id":"Ry%C5%AB+Murakami"},{"text":"The same numbness and disappointment every day sends some people looking for something tragic for proof of life.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["disappointment","numbness","searching","spirituality"],"id":30780,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"I have outlasted all desire,My dreams and I have grown apart;My grief alone is left entire,The gleamings of an empty heart.The storms of ruthless dispensationHave struck my flowery garland numb,I live in lonely desolationAnd wonder when my end will come.Thus on a naked tree-limb, blastedBy tardy winter's whistling chill,A single leaf which has outlastedIts season will be trembling still.","author":"Alexander Pushkin","tags":["death","desire","dreams","grief","heart","lonliness","numbness","poetry"],"id":43250,"author_id":"Alexander+Pushkin"},{"text":"..'I let people walk away, the one who loved me, the one who cares for me, I push them to their limits but the saddest part is...I felt nothing, too much pain makes me numb..","author":"gracetamio","tags":["breakup","felt-sorry","letting-go","numbness","pain"],"id":44132,"author_id":"gracetamio"},{"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"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":39,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}