“They give me a shot and a handful of pills to swallow. I stare at the thin red wall of my inner eyelid and listen to my skin and I can't be sure how the medication is affecting me. I can't remember how I'm supposed to feel. I can't remember my name. I have never seen my face.” GivingFeelsI CanRememberFacesNamesWallShotsRedSkinsGive MeStaringEmptinessPillsHandfulDetachmentMedicationNumbnessEyelids Author:Will Christopher Baer
“I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know who's seeking me. My boredom with everything has numbed me. I feel banished from my soul.” IfsKnowsFeelsSoulUsedSeekingUsed To BeMy SoulBoredomEmptinessDetachmentNumbness Book:The Book of Disquiet Source: The Book of Disquiet
“Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores once, but hucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow.” PeopleWorldFeelsBelieveMadeIdentityCoreAttractiveFakeEmptinessReplacedHollowDetachmentNumbness Author:Douglas Coupland
“I'm up all night against my will My medicine won't let me feel anything at all The doctor gave me sleeping pills and I took one Then I feel all alone, sleeping like a stone.” FeelsNightSleepStonesDoctorsLet MeMedicineEmptinessPillsAll NightDetachmentAll AloneNumbnessUp All NightSleeping Pills Author:Joseph Arthur
“She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed to be.” FeelsMouthsHolesSupposed To BeEmptinessPlasticDetachmentDollsNumbness Author:Francesca Lia Block
“Outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the warm, earthy world. Into a nest of lovers' beds, baby cribs, meal tables, all the solid commerce of life in this earth, and feel apart, enclosed in a wall of glass.” WorldFeelsLooksEarthStarsWallBabyColdLoversBedTablesGlassesWarmAwfulMealsEmptinessCommerceHelplessDetachmentNestsOutcastNumbness Book:The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962 Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962