Prodigy Quotes

The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more.

People who have never dealt with depression think it's just being sad or being in a bad mood. That's not what depression is for me; it's falling into a state of grayness and numbness.

I have a good poker face because I am half-dead inside.

He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.

It is quite amazing what I didn't feel after a while. I didn't really want to feel things.

Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic thing. But none of us has ever been on medication.

A cold heart is my protection mechanism. I don't really feel anything for anyone.

I am not a sentimental person.

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state that we existed in. For one thing, she suffered from a debilitating depression throughout my childhood, and depression is nothing if not static.

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

I don't have emotional needs, only physical ones.

My dad has even less emotion than me!

I have changed drastically because I allow myself to not just grieve and feel down.

I am not an emotional person, really.

I am probably a bit numb upstairs, which is sometimes a good thing.

When my disease nearly destroyed me in 2009, my doctors thought I'd be lucky to regain 80 percent of my cognitive abilities. When I was at my sickest, I couldn't read or write. I could barely walk on my own or groom myself. The disease felled me physically and mentally - robbing me, briefly but intensely, of my wits, my sanity, my memory, my self.

I didn't choose to get anorexia. I may have made some childhood-like choices to try to control something. 'I know what I'll do: I'll just not eat.' That was the initial point, but then it spiraled and became a disease - not a choice by any means.

Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.

Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.

I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died. If I never loved I never would have cried...I am a rock.

Oh," he said to Kiyo, voice completely devoid of emotion. "I see. It's your turn again.

When you numb your pain you also numb your joy.