Heart Numb Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Nothing much bothered you for a while and you kept walking like a silhouette through this town, saying hi's and goodbyes, acting polite at all times. But there is no fire in your heart; you are not very concerned.

Charlotte Eriksson

#3. I have no wit, no words, no tears;
My heart within me like a stone
Is numb'd too much for hopes or fears;
Look right, look left, I dwell alone;
I lift mine eyes, but dimm'd with grief
No everlasting hills I see;
My life is in the falling leaf:
O Jesus, quicken me.

Christina Rossetti

#4. if you are able to cry, than accept the pain that will come for your heart is not yet broken until you are completely numb

Samantha Tamburello

#5. Colors blind the eye
Sounds deafen the ear.
Flavors numb the taste.
Thoughts weaken the mind.
Desires wither the heart.

Lao-Tzu

#6. Sometimes we love people so much that we have to be numb to it. Because if we actually felt how much we love them, it would kill us. That doesn't make you a bad person. It just means your heart's too big.

Brittany Murphy

#7. It would have broken my heart if it hadn't been so damn familiar. I guess I'd gotten numb to that sort of thing. I had heart-leather like walruses got blubber.

Junot Diaz

#8. I was numb and I had lots of swollen lymph nodes, my heart was hurting and I had blood clots in my arm and leg.

Corey Haim

#9. I love to read,
but I can't stand books like that.
And I flat out refuse
to have one of those lives
that I wouldn't even want
to read about."
"But at least I'm numb
as if my heart's been Novocained.

Sonya Sones

#10. What do we do after things fall apart? Do we run to the familiar once again? Do we attempt to numb the pain with distractions? What do we do after things fall apart?

Benyf

#11. We numb our minds and heart so one need not be broken and the other need not be bothered.

Peggy Haymes

#12. I try to tighten my heart into a knot, a snarl, I try to learn to live dead, just numb, but then I see someone I want, and it's like a nail, like a hot spike right through my chest, and I know I'm losing.

Tony Kushner

#13. Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters.

Albert Schweitzer

#14. What does it mean when your heart's already numb? You're a professional.

The Weeknd

#15. When you miss someone ... it's weird ... your body doesn't function normally..as it should. Because I miss you, and my heart ... it's not steady ... my soul it sings numb. Fingers are cold ... like you ... your soul.

Coco J. Ginger

#16. Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart, if they exist, I will still not have the power to forget you.

Ovid

#17. My head hurts and my heart feels nothing but numb blankness.

Huntley Fitzpatrick

#18. I would do almost anything for him to kiss me; his possessive lips and eager tongue invading my mouth, even the thought sent tingles up my numb spine and lifeless body

Mercy Cortez

#19. You're in my blood spreading through my heart - pumping me numb.

Coco J. Ginger

#20. Love didn't end all at once, no matter how much you needed it to or how inconvenient it was. You couldn't command love to stop any more than a marriage document could order it to appear. Maybe love had to bleed away a drop at a time until your heart was numb and cold and mostly dead.

Mary E. Pearson

#21. Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.

Ann Voskamp

#22. 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

#23. 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

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

Gustave Flaubert

#25. 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