Numbness Of Feeling Quotes

#1. I want someone to pinch me so I can feel something, anything. I'm sick of this numbness, of feeling so alone and outside of everything, but I know it's too dangerous to wake up.
- Ruth Mendenberg

Carol Matas

#2. I like to turn on the TV and watch whatever's on. Nick Kroll does that a lot. He doesn't watch important shows. He'll just turn on a documentary on Mia Hamm and watch it for an hour. Whatever's on, we watch.

John Mulaney

#3. Once you lose your parents, you get this numbness, this feeling of having to really be able to connect yourself with someone. I depended on my brothers for that connection, but to have that feeling of being taken care of ... I lost it when my parents passed away.

Adam Beach

#4. Mosca had never tasted power before. It was a little like the feeling the gin had given her, but without the bitterness and the numbness in her nose.

Frances Hardinge

#5. Numbness is not happiness.

Marty Rubin

#6. He was gripped by what he could think of only as numbness, though he knew it was a feeling compounded of emotions so deep and intense that they could not be acknowledged because they could not be lived with.

John Williams

#7. It is better to exist unknown to the law.'

Michael Scott

#8. I was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view.

Haruki Murakami

#9. A fluent trumpeter with a bright tone and a forward-looking style ...

Scott Yanow

#10. There is a level of grief so deep that it stops resembling grief at all. The pain becomes so severe that the body can no longer feel it. The grief cauterizes itself, scars over, prevents inflated feeling. Such numbness is a kind of mercy.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#11. Artillery has stopped for the moment, and the predawn fires inside the walls take on a steady middle life, an adulthood.

Anthony Doerr

#12. 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

#13. I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

Jason Mraz

#14. She examined me, she looked at me critically and said, "Why are you trying to starve yourself?" To keep myself from feeling love, from feeling lust, from feeling anything at all.

Joyce Carol Oates

#15. Every day, you save yourself, even when you don't feel up to it.

Fran Seen

#16. The DFA and organizations like it have pushed and squeezed and elbowed out all the feeling in the world. They have clamped their fists around a geyser to keep it from exploding.
But the pressure eventually builds, and the explosion will always come.

Lauren Oliver

#17. I am feeling fine. I remember these words and recite them. These are the things you say when asked how you are. After all, it would be odd to say: I'm not feeling. Or, more to the point: I'm not, I have ceased to be. Where am I?

Marya Hornbacher

#18. You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text,

John F. Kerry

#19. Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything.

Wilson Pickett

#20. Someone is going to tell you to get use to this. That feeling of being scared and sad. They're going to say it'll be better when you learn to ignore it. Don't listen to them. Hold on to it, remember it ... Don't let yourself forget it. It's too easy to lose.
-Carl Grimes

Robert Kirkman

#21. There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.

Douglas Coupland

#22. 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

#23. Knowledge is not power; Implementation is power

Garrison Wynn

#24. I don't sleep. I just let my body lie itself into numbness and lie to myself that I can't hear, see, or feel anything.

Will Advise

#25. I felt so many things at once that together, they combined to make nothing, a numbness, an absence of feeling caused by a surplus of feeling.

Hanya Yanagihara

#26. Anyone can create a job for themselves. But not everyone can change the world

Dan Norris

#27. I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.

Emo Philips

#28. A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content.

Sigmund Freud

#29. Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#30. But what would that be like
feeling the tide rise
out of the numbness inside

David Whyte