Top 43 Numbed Quotes

#1. Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.

Adrienne Rich

Numbed Quotes #75032
#2. Take the god's gift. Become the Fury.
It was time to become the monster Merik had been all along. No more numbed distance. No more fighting the Nihar temper. Only vicious, hungry heat.
One for the sake of many; vengeance for those he'd lost.

Susan Dennard

Numbed Quotes #158626
#3. Acting was all about making yourself feel things-love,rage,euphoria,agony. She had to unlearn those things now. She had to teach herself not to feel. Refusing to feel hurt also meant she numbed herself to joy, but the sacrifice was worth it.

Susan Wiggs

Numbed Quotes #165968
#4. He was tired and full of shame, and if Ernestino and the others wouldn't brave this rain, he would go it alone, he would find some place to sing, some place where, anonymous and numbed by drink, he could sing until he had forgotten everything.

Anne Rice

Numbed Quotes #169438
#5. I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level.

Ted Danson

Numbed Quotes #236804
#6. When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed out by the TV, I felt empty. My heart hurt. I often felt hollow or as if I were some sort of wispy ghost, barely existing.

Judith Wright

Numbed Quotes #248088
#7. A sad smile crossed her face, and I knew right then what she was trying to tell me. Her eyes never left mine as she finally said the words that numbed my soul.
I'm dying, Landon.

Nicholas Sparks

Numbed Quotes #306813
#8. no aperture is numbed ; no matter if it seems void

Huma Kirmani

Numbed Quotes #316769
#9. I wash off the night in the water, my scrapes and aches numbed by the sea. My bones have become boughs, all scarred knees and gnarled kuckles. None of us are the same person we once were, since the human body replaces itself every seven years; there have been at least six different mes.

Philip Hoare

Numbed Quotes #411770
#10. Artillery raining fire on his tiny village Jabla on the Line of Control (LoC). War has numbed him, so has devastation. Yet nothing had prepared him for the havoc of Saturday morning. He was taking a nap, having had his pre-dawn Ramzan meal. At first there

Anonymous

Numbed Quotes #433761
#11. The shock of twentieth-century technology numbed our brains and we are just beginning to notice the spiritual and social debris that our technology has strewn about us.

Neil Postman

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#12. There I am then back in the saddle, in my numbed heart a prick of misgiving, like one dying of cancer obliged to consult his dentist.

Samuel Beckett

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#13. Denial was a weapon; it killed truth, numbed the mind, and I was a junkie.

John Hart

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#14. I want people to leave the theater wrestling with the idea that our pain - physical, emotional, and spiritual pain - is more than just a condition that needs to be silenced, numbed, or "fixed."

Karyn Kusama

Numbed Quotes #592058
#15. But our senses of smell were numbed from fighting Slimy, the Ancient Icky One. The

Gini Koch

Numbed Quotes #605450
#16. The fact is: America's obsession with meat and dairy has pretty much destroyed our sense of taste. The average burger and milkshake meal is so overloaded with fat, salt and sugar that it has numbed our taste buds to virtually anything else.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Numbed Quotes #653289
#17. The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.

John Keats

Numbed Quotes #681456
#18. I am scared, numbed from the marital wars - that deadly, deadening combat which is the opposite, the antithesis of the sharp painful struggles of lovers. Lovers fight with knives and whips, husbands and wives poisoned marshmallows, sleeping pills, and wet blankets.

Susan Sontag

Numbed Quotes #729096
#19. If your senses are numbed with delusion and denial, you will stop looking for these true strengths and wind up living a second-rate version of someone's life rather than a worldclass version of your own

Donald O. Clifton

Numbed Quotes #742158
#20. People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.

Iman

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#21. Now that they were no longer half-numbed with starvation, they had time both for leisure and for the first rudiments of thought.

Arthur C. Clarke

Numbed Quotes #798132
#22. My boredom with everything has numbed me.

Fernando Pessoa

Numbed Quotes #850183
#23. I used to think fear either numbed or nudged. Now I knew fear did neither. Fear was a key that fit every person's hollow spaces---those things that kept us cold at night and that place where we retreated when no one was looking---and all it could do was unlock what was already there.

Roshani Chokshi

Numbed Quotes #863738
#24. No concept of danger,
reality, flow or
compassion.
you can feel the despair
escaping from their
machines,
their lives as hopeless and
as numbed as yours.

Charles Bukowski

Numbed Quotes #880852
#25. It was freezing, but the cold effortlessly numbed my feet and aching hands. I walked quietly, barefoot, to the end of the block, leaving my shoes behind to remind me how to find my way home.

Jenny Lawson

Numbed Quotes #930551
#26. A part of her was immune to pain, numbed by humiliating experiences and hatred while the part that had known finer emotions, powerless to alter the course of events, chose to remain nonchalant.

Neetha Joseph

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#27. Willy Lazeer is an acquaintance. His teeth and his feet hurt. He hates the climate, the Power Squadron, the government and his wife. The vast load of hate has left him numbed rather than bitter. In appearance, it is as though somebody bleached Sinatra, skinned him, and made Willy wear him.

John D. MacDonald

Numbed Quotes #1016368
#28. He's beginning to like me. I am a better and better audience as I get numbed, and although I've played this game of Impress You (and won it, too--though I don't like either of the prizes; winning is too much like losing) I'm too tired to go on playing tonight.

Joanna Russ

Numbed Quotes #1060414
#29. A smell of sandalwood boxes, a kind of glaze on the air from all the chintzes numbed his earthy vitality, he became all ribs and uniform.

Elizabeth Bowen

Numbed Quotes #1081166
#30. I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know who's seeking me. My boredom with everything has numbed me. I feel banished from my soul.

Fernando Pessoa

Numbed Quotes #1123135
#31. The free expression of resentment against one's parents represents a great opportunity. It provides access to one's true self, reactivates numbed feelings, opens the way for mourning and - with luck - reconciliation.

Alice Miller

Numbed Quotes #1149705
#32. Wilderness, wilderness ... We scarcely know what we mean by the term, though the sound of it draws all whose nerves and emotions have not been irreparably stunned, deadened, numbed by the caterwauling of commerce, the sweating scramble for profit and domination.

Edward Abbey

Numbed Quotes #1239871
#33. In a world where the people are numbed and distracted, the only thing that sells is the unbelievable.

James Redfield

Numbed Quotes #1314579
#34. They want politics and think it will save them. At best, it gives direction to their numbed desires. But there is no politics but the manipulation of power through language. Thus the latter's constant debasement.

Gilbert Sorrentino

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#35. I wonder," James wrote, "if we haven't become so numbed by all these numbers that we are no longer capable of truly assimilating any knowledge which might result from them.

Michael Lewis

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#36. Their dark silhouettes numbed the soft part of his brain, like a bee stinging and numbing a caterpillar, then laying eggs on the surface of its body. The bee larvae use the paralyzed caterpillar as a convenient source of food and devour it as soon as they're born.

Haruki Murakami

Numbed Quotes #1492228
#37. Oh, blessed Domi!" the Aon exclaimed, approaching quickly.
"Ashe!" she said, wiping her eyes with a quivering hand, numbed by shock.
"You never use the Lord's name!"
"If He has brought me to you, then He has His first Seon convert," Ashe said,
pulsing excitedly.

Brandon Sanderson

Numbed Quotes #1532982
#38. The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause and effect, and those who, numbed by isolation and despair, now seek meaning in a mythical world of intuition, a world that is no longer reality-based, a world of magic.

Chris Hedges

Numbed Quotes #1585039
#39. She was soothing chaos. Like that first taste of anesthesia, before you lost your senses. Or the venom that numbed you before it killed you. I really couldn't decide which. The verdict was definitely still out on that.

R.K. Lilley

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#40. 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

Numbed Quotes #1617172
#41. If that's the case, I understand why emotions are hard for you. You've numbed yourself to make room for the grief you carry.

Brent Jones

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#42. I don't like explosions. I don't mind progress. But digital photography has made every man, woman, child and chimpanzee a photographer of sorts and consequently has numbed down the general quality of photographs.

Elliott Erwitt

Numbed Quotes #1718668
#43. The fine wall of leaden crystal that had protected her heart - somehow numbed her into disbelief - shattered.

Alice Sebold

Numbed Quotes #1730183

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