numbness

Noun

Meaning

The condition of being numb; that state of a living body in which it loses, wholly or in part, the power of feeling or motion.

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

I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence. Nick Cave

There is a level of grief so deep that it stops resembling grief at all. The pain becomes so severe that the body can no longer feel it. The grief cauterizes itself, scars over, prevents inflated feeling. Such numbness is a kind of mercy. Elizabeth Gilbert

The numbness of his loss had passed, and the pain would hit me out of nowhere, doubling me over, racking my body with sobs. Where are you? I would cry out in my mind. Where have you gone? Of course, there was never any answer. Suzanne Collins

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

Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life. Martha Beck

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