Going Numb Quotes

#1. As I walked with my arms crossed to keep warm, I felt myself going numb. How long was I gone, I wondered. A few hours? Minutes? Days? There was no way to know. Maybe I was locked in that darkness all along and just woke from my dream ... A marvelous dream.

Charles Lee

#2. You can lose yourself in pleasure, 'til your body's going numb, but will it ever be enough.

Meat Loaf

#3. I love the slow, warming sensation of my body going numb when I drink.

Patricia Gaffney

#4. Now he was going numb, and that scared him more than pain because it meant he might just...fade. Fade right into death without noticing.

V.E Schwab

#5. The worst part of going numb was that it took away everything but this, the smothering need to hurt, to break, to kill, pouring over him like a thick blanket of syrup until he panicked and brought the physical sensations back.

V.E Schwab

#6. Maybe this is another way to think about original sin - the ingrained lure of the possibility of going numb, a habit of acquiescence to it.

Krista Tippett

#7. I felt, by turns, numb, hot with a monstrous embarrassment, and sick as though I'd eaten splinters of glass and was slowly shredding inside.

Vanora Bennett

#8. I got some real rough dental work done not long ago, and my mouth's still numb right here [points to the left side of his chin]. So it kind of messes with my speech a little bit, so don't y'all think that I took too many cos I haven't.

Roy Jones Jr.

#9. 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

#10. Something inside me shuts down and I'm too numb to feel anything. It's like watching complete strangers in another Hunger Games. But I do notice they omit the part where I covered her in flowers.
Right. Because even that smacks of rebellion.

Suzanne Collins

#11. That night she sat for hours, too numb to even drink, teaching herself to breathe in a vaccum. For this, oh God, was the void.

Thomas Pynchon

#12. You're kind of numb after 50 shots to the head.

Jim Harbaugh

#13. Given a choice, she would rather be the one who was persecuted than the one doing the persecuting
both had a terrible price to pay, but she would rather endure humiliation and fear than grow numb to what it was to be human.

Ursula Hegi

#14. I feel numb most of the time
The lower I get the higher I'll climb

Marina And The Diamonds

#15. 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

#16. I think maybe I was numb to it last year.. but you know I feel it now more than ever

Drake

#17. He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness.

Thomas Harris

#18. Princess." Puck's voice broke through my numb trance. I glared poisoned daggers at him and he gave me a weak smile. "Scary, you can rip me to pieces later. His royal iciness isn't looking so good. We have to get him to a healer, now."
-Puck

Julie Kagawa

#19. If you don't know what you want, you'll never find it.
If you don't know what you deserve, you'll always settle for less.
You will wander aimlessly, uncomfortably numb in your comfort zone, wondering how life has ended up here.
Life starts now, live, love, laugh and let your light shine!

Rob Liano

#20. Do you want me to have them sedate you until it's over?

Suzanne Collins

#21. What I know is that she sets me on fire, and if you were to perform an intradermal test on me, you'd know when she was in it because you'd see the trails of blaze she left behind. Because that's what I feel at the mere thought of her, and I'd rather live my life in flames than be numb without her.

Claire Contreras

#22. It's easier to run
Replacing this pain with something numb
It's so much easier to go
Than face all this pain here all alone.

Linkin Park

#23. I'd be in my hotel room, smoking too much, drinking, going to clubs, just being numb. That was being in jail to me. I wasn't happy at all on the streets. That was the addict speaking.

Tupac Shakur

#24. I'd been taking things slow, so slow I wondered if I could go any slower. Every night I ended up going one on one with myself to the point that my hand was starting to get numb while I took notes in class.

J. Lynn

#25. I think grief is a step towards strength because it allows you to be porous and take everything in, and have it transform you. What will sit within you is despairing, but at least it's feeling. You're not numb. Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling.

Carrie Brownstein

#26. Does anybody know how I feel?
Sometimes I'm numb ...
Sometimes I'm overcome ...
Does anybody care what's going on?
Do I have to wear my scars
Like a badge on my arm?
For you to see me
I need to release

ZOEgirl

#27. Flashing Lights In My Mind
Going Back to The Time
Playing Games in the Street
Kicking Balls with My Feet
Theres a Numb in my toes
Standing close to the edge
Theres a ball of my clothes at the end of your bed
As I feel myself fall
Make a joke of it all

One Direction

#28. Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.

Yasmin Mogahed

#29. Sometimes he missed the numbed, walking-underwater feeling feel that the cocktail of narcotics used to give him. But if a situation went down in here, he was going to need all of his wits to get out of it.

R.D. Ronald

#30. We can't make a list of all of the "bad" emotions and say, "I'm going to numb these" and then make a list of the positive emotions and say, "I'm going to fully engage in these!

Brene Brown

#31. The thing is, being lonely is like walking in the cold without a coat. It's uncomfortable, but eventually you go numb. Once you get used to not being lonely, though, the shock of going back is like having your down comforter yanked off at six o'clock on a Minnesota December morning.

Maggie Hall

#32. there are only so many times you can listen to the guitar solo in Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" without going a little numb yourself,

John Seabrook

#33. For what wears out the life of mortal men? 'Tis that from change to change their being rolls; Tis that repeated shocks, again, again, Exhaust the energy of strongest souls And numb the elastic powers.

Matthew Arnold

#34. I wish someone had told me this simple but confusing truth: Even when everything's going your way you can still be sad. Or anxious. Or uncomfortably numb. Because you can't always control your brain or your emotions even when things are perfect.

Jenny Lawson

#35. If I'm going to cry, now is the time. By morning, I'll be able to wash all the damage done by the tears from my face. But no tears come. I'm too tired or too numb to cry. The only thing I feel is a desire to be somewhere else. So I let the train rock me into oblivion.

Suzanne Collins

#36. I'm so NUMB. I just don't care, it seems-but I must do. This is all going to sound totally incoherent. I'm that bunged up, but totally empty. I think my worries about who I am have reached a head.
I mean who is Rae Earl?
I think I know myself, but then other people say things.

Rae Earl

#37. Numb, I took the perfectly browned puff. Okay. Let me see if I have this right. Al provokes me into defending myself. I nearly kill him. Then Newt tries to kill me, thinking I'm Ku'Sox. Al stops her, saving my life. And now we're all going to have s'mores together?

Kim Harrison

#38. I'm going void
which is like numb
but higher up on the pain scale

Melissa Severin

#39. 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

#40. We use work to numb out. We can't turn off our machines because we're afraid we're going to miss something.

Brene Brown

#41. Numb is the new deep.

John Mayer

#42. What I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is right that you feel it all in any moment. And it is right that you see it through
that you are amazed, then curious, then belligerent, then heartbroken, then numb. You have the right to all of it.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#43. At this moment I am feeling disappointed with myself and I am hurt and numb

Ronnie O'Sullivan

#44. In a society that almost demands life at double time, speed and addictions numb us to our own experience. In such a society, it is almost impossible to settle into our bodies or stay connected with our hearts, let alone connect with one another or the earth where we live.

Jack Kornfield

#45. His heart was flooded with immense love, and as he gazed on her he could feel his mind growing numb.

Gustave Flaubert

#46. Because I'm not, in fact, depressed, Prozac makes me manic and numb - one of the reasons I slice my arm in the first place is that I'm coked to the gills on something utterly wrong for what I have.

Marya Hornbacher

#47. She didn't fall, but oh, her heart went icy in her chest. She sat down hard upon the steps. Too numb to walk. Her heart was cold and white as chalk.

Patrick Rothfuss

#48. I see,' Rick said. He felt numb. Completely. Throughout his entire body.

Philip K. Dick

#49. Hebbity bedda," I said, by way of attempting a greeting. My mouth had gone rather numb, and my tongue felt like a lead weight. "Jussa hangonna sayke hee.

Anonymous

#50. 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

#51. I assumed it was perfect, that everyone was happy and beautiful and wanted for nothing, and in my numb, limited way I felt envy and wanted to eat them all the more

Isaac Marion

#52. I will cling to the rope God has thrown me in Jesus Christ, even when my numb hands can no longer feel it.

Sophie Scholl

#53. It's like, the more you commit, the happier the animators are; if you're at all iffy and concerned, then it doesn't free them up to do as much fun stuff, so you have to just go for it and, again, trust the people around you and not be seemingly guarded and numb. Throw caution to the wind a bit.

Neil Patrick Harris

#54. Girls are genius at getting through sexual abuse. Often the only way to get through is not to feel. And that is exactly what these fantasy worlds allow: They give girls a place to go so they don't have to be present in their violated bodies. Brilliant.

Patti Feuereisen

#55. When I'm invisible I don't have to feel anything. The pain and grief and fear goes away. I go numb and quiet.

Cecily Anne Paterson

#56. 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

#57. People are sort of numb to watching violence, but sexual activity is still as strong as it ever was in terms of generating response.

Steven Soderbergh

#58. If so, how do we feel about it?" "We are numb.

Jonathan Tropper

#59. When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.

Brene Brown

#60. A pill to make you numb, a pill to make you dumb.

Marilyn Manson

#61. Now you are come! You tremble like a star Poised where, behind earth's rim, the sun has set. Your voice has sung across my heart, but numb And mute, I have no tones to answer.

Amy Lowell

#62. Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Josh Billings

#63. Drugs may know how to numb a brain, but the past never forgets to resurface.

Kris Kidd

#64. 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

#65. After two weeks of feeling dead numb, I decided the sewage system needed the pills more than I did, so I flushed them all down the toilet.

Kate Ellison

#66. I was wide awake, and yet part of me was so glassed-off and numb I was practically in a coma.

Donna Tartt

#67. Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.

Dean Koontz

#68. You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder, who felt their emotions floating away and just didn't care. I guess that's what's scariest: not caring about the loss.

Douglas Coupland

#69. Kayleigh was right. Without the pills, you really do feel nothing.
And nothing can be nice.

Beth Revis

#70. Oddly, the burned hand didn't seem to hurt much anymore; it was only numb. It would have been better if there had been pain. Pain was at least real.

Stephen King

#71. His love became a prison from which he longed to escape, but he had not the strength merely to open the door-that was all it needed-and walk out into the open air. It was torture and at last he became numb and hopeless.

W. Somerset Maugham

#72. A strong drink can numb the soul as good as any prayer

Erin Bowman

#73. Claire didn't understand the appeal of being drugged. She had thought the purpose was to make you numb, but if anything, she was feeling everything much too intensely. She couldn't shut down her brain. She felt shaky. Her tongue was too thick for her mouth. Maybe she was doing it wrong.

Karin Slaughter

#74. It wasn't that she was sad - sadness had very little to do with it, really, considering that most of the time, she felt close to nothing at all. Feeling required nerves, connections, sensory input. The only thing she felt was numb. And tired. Yes, she very frequently felt tired.

Nenia Campbell