Become Numb Quotes

#1. We have to keep asking ourselves: 'What does it all mean? What is God trying to tell us? How are we called to live in the midst of all this?' Without such questions our lives become numb and flat.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#2. People are beginning to become disturbingly comfortable with a kind of official hypocrisy. Bizarrely, for instance, we've become numb to the idea that rights aren't absolute but are enjoyed on a kind of sliding scale.

Matt Taibbi

#3. America has become numb to violence because it just drowns in it, day in and day out.

Janet Reno

#4. Knowledge can be a subtle curse. When we learn about the world, we also learn all the reasons why the world cannot be changed. We get used to our failures and imperfections. We become numb to the possibilities of something new

Jonah Lehrer

#5. What I don't want to become numb to is wasting those taxpayer dollars.

Jason Chaffetz

#6. It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it.

Zainab Salbi

#7. I've never formally trained for pain management, but I have a good understanding of how to conquer it. I just analyze the pain, feel it in the moment, and then mentally become numb to it.

Criss Angel

#8. Nothing else you want to do after all your dreams come true.
You've become numb. You shouldn't have ever stopped dreaming.

Toba Beta

#9. Habit makes it dangerously easy to become numb to our own existence. For

Gretchen Rubin

#10. 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

#11. To know objects only through dissecting and cataloguing them is to miss their full reality. It is to fall asleep amidst the mystery and to become numb to the wonder of this great Earth.

John Daido Loori

#12. We're surrounded by violence, and we see so much of it on TV, especially the news programs. We almost become numb. And that forces filmmakers to try to outdo themselves ... They say, 'Look what I can do,' and it becomes like a showoff thing. To me, that's ridiculous. Filmmaking isn't a contest!

Jan De Bont

#13. I guess that's what happens when you've lost everything that had any real meaning. You become numb to what's left.

Melyssa Winchester

#14. Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.

Matt Taibbi

#15. Had our hearts really become so numb that we needed dead bodies in order to feel the beat of compassion in our chests? Who am I if I need to be shocked back into my best self?

Jason Reynolds

#16. She cries,
I laugh,
She becomes numb,
I become filled with joy,
She slowly crumbles,
I feel on top of the world,
Yet somehow in the end,
Out of the ashes,
She rose like a Phoenix,
As if nothing had ever touched her

Tanzy Sayadi

#17. We have become dangerously comfortable- believers ooze with wealth and let their addictions to comfort and security numb the radical urgency of the gospel.

Francis Chan

#18. I've become so numb, I can't feel you there. Become so tired, so much more aware. In becoming this, all I want to do, is be more like me. And be less like you.

Linkin Park

#19. We become so numb to what we're saying.

Macklemore

#20. How can you see into my eyes like open doors
Leading you down into my core
Where I've become so numb without a soul
My spirit sleeping somewhere cold
Until you find it there and lead it back home

Evanescence

#21. He had to stand on guard against his own feeling - as if some part of him had become a stranger that had to be kept numb, and his will had to be its constant, watchful anesthetic.

Ayn Rand

#22. And your actual job isn't to educate the public; it's to stroke the collective clit of our consciousness until we all become so cum-numb to the world that we just chase the high and can't see the lows we're all wallowing in.

K.I. Hope