"Contentment is a feeling you say? Are you sure it’s not an absence of feeling? I liken it to that..."

“Contentment is a feeling you say? Are you sure it’s not an absence of feeling? I liken it to that particular numbness one gets after a visit to the dentist. Not in pain nor out of it, slightly drugged. Contentment is the positive side of resignation. It has its appeal but it’s no good wearing an overcoat and furry slippers and heavy gloves when what the body really wants is to be naked.”

- Jeanette Winterson, “Written on the Body” (via lifeinpoetry)