Numbness Quotes
Collection of top 64 famous quotes about Numbness
Numbness Quotes & Sayings
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This morning I suddenly catch myself: I'm not there, I'm so lost in thought, I don't know what's going on around me. Can you think yourself to death?
— Anna Kamienska
Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.
— David Whyte
I feel something else break through the numbness. Something raw. Something primal. Something visceral.
— Sam A. Patel
Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Depression means self-loathing, self-disgust, and the kind of emotional numbness that feels like psychic death.
— William Deresiewicz
I was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view.
— Haruki Murakami
Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain.
— Margaret Atwood
Then Jess gave himself over to the numbness that was buzzing to be let out from a corner of his brain.
— Katherine Paterson
I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.
— Sylvia Plath
This behavior may ... counteract feelings of'numbness'and depersonalization that aries duriing periods of extreme stress.-153 Girl,Interrupted
— Susanna Kaysen
Physical pain was easy. It would always pass in the end. All it needed was time - a ticking clock.
— Sidney Knight
The thought came creeping, just as the numbness came creeping, stealing over his senses, softly, smoothly, there in the silken silence.
— Robert Bloch
Mosca had never tasted power before. It was a little like the feeling the gin had given her, but without the bitterness and the numbness in her nose.
— Frances Hardinge
She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed to be.
— Francesca Lia Block
I wasn't glad that I hadn't died. And I wasn't sad that I hadn't. I wasn't anything.
— Kathleen Rooney
One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Sometimes you feel things so much, so intensely, it becomes a new kind of numbness, the oblivion of overstimulation.
— Leah Raeder
I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness.
— Augusten Burroughs
He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness.
— Thomas Harris
Art is the antidote that can call us back from the edge of numbness, restoring the ability to feel for another.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Pain is always preferable to numbness.
— Scott Anderson
How much had I missed in these months of despair and numbness?
— Sarah J. Maas
You took away the numbness. You made me remember how to feel, how to care about someone other than myself.
— Kelly Oram
Ties are straightened and expressions banished.
— Rana Dasgupta
Eventually, however, the denial turned into emptiness and my childhood ended.
— Floyd C. Forsberg
When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard.
— Sylvia Plath
I felt so many things at once that together, they combined to make nothing, a numbness, an absence of feeling caused by a surplus of feeling.
— Hanya Yanagihara
Numbness spread, allowing him to move his arms without the stabbing agony that had had him bathed in sweat over the last few hours.
— Steven Erikson
We conform to pain until we don't notice it anymore; it's what you call - numb - and it tragically blots out our pleasure too.
— Bryant McGill
Numbness is not happiness.
— Marty Rubin
In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
— Patrick Ness
I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added.
— Louise Gluck
Numbness and cynicism, I suspect, are more often the products of frustrated compassion than of evil intentions.
— David Hilfiker
I don't sleep. I just let my body lie itself into numbness and lie to myself that I can't hear, see, or feel anything.
— Will Advise
Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.
— Margaret Atwood
A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind.
— John Dryden
Without love everything can be nothing. Does that make me want to love? No. For me, Ignorance is still better than martyrdom.
— Ira N. Barin
When things don't go the way you want them to, sometimes instead of feeling disappointment or heartache, you just become numb.
— April Mae Monterrosa
Numb the dark and you numb the light.
— Brene Brown
He was numb: heart-numb, mind-numb, soul-numb. And the numbness, he realized, went a long way down, and a long way back.
— Neil Gaiman
Crossing the Ring of Fire is..moving from the emotional shutdown of numbness through the flames of fear and entering into the healing arms of change.
— David W. Earle
Someone who would bear my shock, reflect back my outrage, so I could see it better, feel more than this electric numbness.
— Jennie Fields
The same numbness and disappointment every day sends some people looking for something tragic for proof of life.
— Bryant McGill
Personal voice- prophesy- disrupts the state of communal numbness in which most of us exist.
— Walter Brueggemann
People talk about the pain of grief, but I don't know what they mean. To me, grief is a devastating numbness, every sensation dulled.
— Veronica Roth
Wasn't it time she risked getting hurt again, instead of just accepting the numbness of never letting anyone in?
— Jeaniene Frost
But now and then, beneath the outer numbness, something stirred, like a living pain waiting for the anesthetic to wear away.
— Zilpha Keatley Snyder
I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.
— Sylvia Plath
