"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)"

--

Source : FaceBook post by Kay Redfield Jamison from Oct 29, 2012

Kay Redfield Jamison

#Numbness Quotes #Wish Quotes #Despair Quotes

“I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.”

Source : Jesse Stuart (1958). “Thread that Runs So True”, p.7, Simon and Schuster
“Women were naturally pure souls, on so much higher a spiritual plane to begin with than men.”

Source : Naomi Ragen (2010). “Jephte's Daughter”, p.68, Macmillan
“My stepmother sold my birth certificate and someone asked why I didn't buy it back. I don't know, really. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. It was mine. It cost me nothing and suddenly I had to buy it back.”
“One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation.”

Source : "$800 million biotech business started in a garage" by Becky Anderson, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.
“It doesn't matter what challenge you face, the most important thing is, when you fall, how you rise and how high you want to go, where you want to go from that rise on.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“She saw him the first day on board, and then her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted him. No matter what his past was, no matter what he had done. Which was not to say that she would ever let him know, but only that he moved her chemically more than anyone she had ever met, that all other men seemed pale beside him.”
“With my Les Paul, I know I'm small. But I enjoy living anyway.”

Source : Song: Spaceball Ricochet, Album: Born to Boogie
“As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science.”

You may also like:

Andrew Solomon
Writer
David D. Burns
Author
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Writer
Elyn Saks
Professor
Marya Hornbacher
Author
Patty Duke
Actress
Robert Lowell
Poet
Susanna Kaysen
Author
William Styron
Novelist