Top 100 Numb Quotes
#1. If drugs really numb your consciousness, they'd be a good thing. As it was, they slowed you down, confused you, kept you vulnerable to violent flashes of recall, and then agitated you and made you unsure of what you knew and didn't know.
Anne Rice
#2. Don't let the simplicity of the love story numb you to the implications of this unlikely romance. We are the object of His desire. We, who are dust, and He, who is everything and needs nothing.
Anonymous
#3. A momentary presence of a person, at times, can comfortably numb his absence in your life.
Novoneel Chakraborty
#4. There was a dense fog in my brain,impenetrable to any coherent thought,except the dull obsession of counting the minutes - an aching state of semi concsiousness and numb idiocy.
Arthur Koestler
#5. People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#6. Maybe loneliness is an acquired taste, or maybe it's like plunging your hand in ice water--it hurts like hell in the beginning, and then you go numb.
Tiffany Schmidt
#7. I WOULD RATHER BE NUMB THAN STAND HERE IN THE LIGHT OF A SUN THAT CAN NEVER CHASE THE CHILL AWAY.
Amie Kaufman
#8. I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.
Sylvia Plath
#9. What I don't want to become numb to is wasting those taxpayer dollars.
Jason Chaffetz
#10. 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
#11. I hate that I'm so numb and empty and disconnected from most of these people but even I can see worth in stupid little moments like these. These people aren't even my family, but I can see their value and if I can see it in something this small, when I feel this bad, then
Then why didn't he?
Courtney Summers
#12. To try and forget, rasa the tabula, wipe the memory totally out, numb it with opiates.
David Foster Wallace
#13. I feel everything intensely, but sometimes I can't feel anything, I'm either hyper aware or numb.
Tina J. Richardson
#14. After six hours in the car, he felt no panic, only a kind of numb wonder. On some level he had come to view his situation as almost natural. Sooner or later a black car came for everyone. It came and took you away from your loved ones, and you never got to go back.
Joe Hill
#15. My mind felt numb, like I couldn't really grasp the hurtful things that I had just recently learned. I was well aware that it was my body's defense mechanism. Shock always did that to a person...enveloped them in a cocoon of decreased sensitivity to allow them to process their hurt.
Courtney Cole
#16. People go for help, but their lives don't get better because of those psychiatric drugs. They get worse. They feel numb and they're told that's a good thing. It's how you degrade a society
by drugging the piss out of it.
Tom Cruise
#17. I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they can't feel anymore.
John Bradshaw
#18. I've perfected the art of the fake smile. It's not so difficult when you are completely numb.
Bethany Griffin
#19. What was she hoping to gain from his death? That it would numb the pain of his betrayal, or heal her injured pride? Her red sister didn't know much about love.
Cornelia Funke
#20. The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life.
Helen Macdonald
#21. There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn't be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.
Christopher Hitchens
#22. Cynicism is a powerful anesthetic we use to numb ourselves to pain, but which also, by its nature, numbs us to truth and joy.
Rachel Held Evans
#23. The inartistic methods that we use to blunt anxiety and unartful expedients that we resort to in order to escape pain and numb banality reveals what we dread most, the act of suffering from a mortal loss or the debasement that we earn by wallowing in our decadent acts of escapism.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#24. Hands were such extraordinary tools, she mused. Tools, weapons, clumsy and deft, numb and tactile. Among tribal hunters, they could speak, a flurry of gestures eloquent in silence. But they could not taste. Could not hear. Could not weep. For all that, they killed so easily.
Steven Erikson
#25. Millions of people walked through their lives numb, dying to feel something, to feel alive. To be chosen by Cordova for a film was an opportunity for just that, not simply for fame and fortune, but to leave their old selves behind like discarded clothes.
Marisha Pessl
#27. 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
#28. My philosophy on getting knocked out is that it renders you unconscious and numb, so why worry about it.
Forrest Griffin
#29. I am nothing but novocaine. I am numb, a world of nothing, all feeling and emotion gone forever.
I am a whisper that never was.
Tahereh Mafi
#30. But while ignorance can make you insensitive, familiarity can also numb. Entering the second half-century of an information age, our cumulative knowledge has changed the level of what appalls, what stuns, what shocks.
Anna Quindlen
#31. Then, when shame strikes, it is so nasty you have to numb yourself, and what better anesthetic than your addiction? It is the perfect vicious circle.
Edward T. Welch
#32. Epic is a word we often hear overused these days.
Epic is Echoes or the guitar solo in Comfortably Numb.
THAT is Epic.
Sienna McQuillen
#33. The pain is such that I refuse to acknowledge it. I feel numb. I have somehow escaped from my body and am now a casual observer to this unfolding tragedy.
E.L. James
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. Be careful with too much joy,
it can make you numb in life.
Toba Beta
#37. That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.
Kathy Mattea
#38. Those fateful words We are now at war with Germany, and for several hours felt strangely numb. She tried to phone Pamela
Kate Atkinson
#39. Passive voice is better than writing out a humongous number and taking the risk that your readers' brains will be numb by the time they get to the verb.
Mignon Fogarty
#40. They've bought out a condom now for people with premature ejaculation and they've put an anesthetic in the lining that makes you numb and you can last for longer. Or, you can wear it inside out and you don't have to wake anybody up!
Frankie Boyle
#41. We become so numb to what we're saying.
Macklemore
#42. We numb our minds and heart so one need not be broken and the other need not be bothered.
Peggy Haymes
#43. The morphine may numb my body, but it sure as hell isn't numbing my mind.
Jessica Wilde
#44. Frankl went on to say it wasn't pleasure mankind was looking for, that men only sought pleasure when they couldn't find meaning. If a man has no sense of meaning, Frankl argued, he will numb himself with pleasure.
Donald Miller
#45. just the suffocating constancy of my own self, that numb and desperate company. -
Emma Cline
#46. She came and took away all his miseries, his sorrows !!
Then SHe
went and left him restlessly numb. He was her
painkiller. SHe, his anesthetic.
Douglas Self
#47. Embarrassment is the worst! It's the feeling of having your entire body go numb and not knowning what to do with yourself for that one moment
Miley Cyrus
#48. By default, most of us have taken the dare to simply survive. Exist. Get through. For the most part, we live numb to life - we've grown weary and apathetic and jaded ... and wounded.
Ann Voskamp
#49. You're all terrified of young people. We remind you of what it was like to have ideals, faith, freedom. We remind you of the losses you've taken as you've grown cynical, numb, disenchanted, compromising the life you imagined.
Stephanie Danler
#50. I couldn't move. I couldn't feel and I was numb. I sat there until it was dark. I could see shadows and then, nothing; darkness. I sat there until my body couldn't take it anymore. I felt like I had died too.
M. Robinson
#51. She was hard, numb. The hardness had come about recently, spreading through her brain and chest. She worried that if she were hit hard enough she would just crack
R.L. Griffin
#52. I've seen that cornered look on more than a few Parish faces over the years, and each time it brings a lump to my throat. The old-timers say you eventually get numb to it. I'm not sure I want to live that long.
Steven Dos Santos
#53. Remember the golden apple-trees;
O, do not pity them, as you watch them drop
one by one,
for they fall exhausted, numb, blind
but in certain ecstasy,
for theirs is the hunger for Paradise.
H.D.
#54. 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
#55. I love the slow, warming sensation of my body going numb when I drink.
Patricia Gaffney
#56. There was no bang, no light at the end of a tunnel. I didn't feel pain or even numb, and Sirius was right, it was quicker and easier than falling asleep
Daniel Xiao Wang
#57. Suppressing your hurts is like not tending to a bullet wound. Eventually you will bleed out. Dont numb pain, express it.
LeCrae
#58. The changes are coming fast and blind now, and in your skull sits an hourglass with a grain size hole through which numb seconds are sliding.
Mary Karr
#59. I'm numb and I'm tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I'd been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I'm soaked to the skin with emotion.
Ray Bradbury
#60. 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
#61. I shrank back, my face flaming as if I'd been struck. And in that moment something changed. I didn't trust her anymore. When she cried, I felt numb. After that, she called me heartless, unfeeling. And maybe I was. A
Christina Baker Kline
#62. No, sir. I won't complain. Except when I move it sharp and sudden, my arm is real numb. It's the rest of me that's in misery."
"Where?"
"My backside and my privates. I'm stuck so full of prickers, it makes me smart just to think on it.
Robert Newton Peck
#63. Were I still the man Eo knew, I would have stood frozen in horror. But that man is gone. I mourn his passing every day. Forgetting more and more of who I was, what dreams I held, what things I loved. The sadness now is numb. And I carry on despite the shadow it casts over me. The
Pierce Brown
#64. Safety is the most unsafe spiritual path you can take. Safety keeps you numb and dead. People are caught by surprise when it is time to die. They have allowed themselves to live so little.
Stephen Levine
#65. I think the best shaped box ever on earth is a coffin which can be handmade to escort the forever numb-hands.
Munia Khan
#66. Oh my God, I can't believe I actually said that out aloud.
Neither could he. The fact that she saw him as so sexually appealing was enough of a surprise to render him speechless. He was numb. Even the dissonance cut off - likely reading his reaction as one of complete unemotionality.
Nalini Singh
#68. A time of darkness, despair, disillusion-so black only the inferno of the human mind can be-symbolic death, and numb shock-then the painful agony of slow rebirth and psychic regeneration
Sylvia Plath
#69. When we hide from the world in this way, we feel secure. We may think we have quieted our fear, but we are actually making ourselves numb with fear. We surround ourselves with our own familiar thoughts, so that nothing sharp or painful can touch us.
Chogyam Trungpa
#70. I've been numb for years, and I didn't realize it until after you appeared and - and made me feel something. Since then, these past two weeks I've been awake. Alive. Restless for you to return - and afraid that you wouldn't.
Alexandra Monir
#71. Kindness was the last thing she needed. She had to stay in the icy place, the numb place, and their warmth threatened to melt her just when she needed the cold.
Janet Fitch
#72. There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.
Diane Setterfield
#73. And so I am feeling numb. It's a curious feeling, and I get it all the time. My attention to the world around me disappears, and something starts to hum inside my head. Far off, voices try to bump up against me, but I repel them. My ears fill up with water and I focus on the humming in my head.
Marya Hornbacher
#74. I contented myself with whiskey, for medicinal purposes. It helped numb my various aches and pains. Not that the alcohol actually reduced the pain, it just gave the pain a life of its own, apart from mine.
Haruki Murakami
#75. We each cope differently with the specter of our deaths. Some people deny it. Some pray. Some numb themselves with tequila. I was tempted to do a little of each of those things. But I think we are supposed to try to face it straightforwardly, armed with nothing but courage.
Lance Armstrong
#76. Just like using drugs and alcohol to numb the pain can -- and does -- lead to addiction, using social media to fill the void of relationships, or other needs, often leads to addiction, as well.
Mandy J. Hoffman
#77. It does not hit you until later. The fact that you were essentially dead does not register until you begin to come alive. Frostbite does not hurt until it starts to thaw. First it is numb. Then a shock of pain rips through the body. And then, every winter after, it aches.
Marya Hornbacher
#78. It cost me my identity. Being molested created such sexual and emotional confusion that I was an old man before I was fifteen and still a boy at thirty. I felt numb and removed, like I was not there, just a piece of property for others to use and discard.
Gregory R. Reid
#79. Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.
Chief Seattle
#80. I learned how to stop crying.
I learned how to hide inside of myself.
I learned how to be somebody else.
I learned how to be cold and numb.
Sherman Alexie
#81. There is a full spectrum of human emotions and when we numb the dark, we numb the light.
Brene Brown
#82. Fee-fi-fo-fum -
Now I'm borrowed.
Now I'm numb.
Anne Sexton
#83. These humans - they are cruel monsters. Liars. Deceitful. For the first time, I want to hurt them the way they hurt me. This is so unfair. My body feels numb, my energy spent, my mind deceived and angry.
Rachel Cohn
#84. Numb" described his effect on her like "handsome" described Abe Lincoln. A woman would have to be dead not to feel a vigorous stirring for a man so incredibly handsome as her wandering polecat.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#85. Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb.
Simone Elkeles
#86. Behind us I saw the water, still welling up from the tunnel, curving round in a frothing serpentine torrent to plunge down the other descending passage. For a moment we all sat there and watched, numb and exhausted.
Kenneth Oppel
#87. Jace karate chopped his wrist, and Eric's fingers went numb. Step away from the eggs, Sticks.
Olivia Cunning
#88. If people can't deal with their problems, they numb themselves a little bit.
Kevin Nealon
#89. A lecturer often makes you feel dumb at one end and numb at the other.
Evan Esar
#90. It doesn't hurt because if you keep hurting the same part of you again and again and again, the nerve endings all die. And when that happens, that part of you goes numb. That's why it doesn't hurt. Don't be proud of it.
Pleasefindthis
#91. All addictions have one thing in common - they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.
Barbara De Angelis
#92. If we do not want to be overwhelmed and struck numb by rare events as if they were unprecedented ones; fortune needs envisaging in a thoroughly comprehensive way.
Seneca.
#93. 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
#94. Normal birth to me should not be numb from the waist down and waiting for the doctor to tell you to push. There's a reason we feel it. There's a reason we need to feel it.
Ricki Lake
#95. All thrones should be made of ice, I think.
Sit on that numb arse, sinking down and down, with the puddle of dissolution getting ever wider around you. Sit, dear ruler, and tell me all your grand designs.
Steven Erikson
#96. Always hoping that, if I got drunk enough or stoned enough, I could numb that part of my soul that ached for Fliss as well.
Sibylla Matilde
#97. Suffering is my teacher. If I pay attention to it instead of trying to numb it out, maybe it can lead me to its root.
Michelle Colston
#98. Lusia's face was red and blotchy. She stared ahead, numb, absentmindedly pulling the grass from the lawn.
A.O. Peart
#99. 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
#100. Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.
Horace
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