Top 29 Numbs Quotes
#1. When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
Viktor E. Frankl
#2. Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.
Margaret Atwood
#3. Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.
Hamlin Garland
#4. Why does ice cream go with a broken heart?" Kylie asked. "Because if you eat enough of it, it freezes the heart and numbs the pain for a bit,
C.C. Hunter
#5. Money numbs your senses. People who touched paper money and then placed their hands in hot burning water didn't feel as much pain as those who hadn't touched money.
Kabir Sehgal
#6. Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.
Boris Pasternak
#7. Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts us from attending to genuine issues of linguistic style in writing.
John McWhorter
#8. Anger devours almost all other good emotions. It deadens the soul. It numbs the heart to joy and gratitude and hope and tenderness and compassion and kindness.
John Piper
#9. Chase opened the mini fridge. "Wanna drink?" He asked.
"No thank you and you shouldn't either."
"Oh I definitely need one, besides it numbs the hunger." He grabbed a few of the tiny bottles from the door shelf.
"Then by all means get your drink on." Samuel chuckled.
S.L. Ross
#10. 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
#11. It is too easy lately to drink too much. To love the warm way it numbs. And I feel Jake watching me; he's counting my drinks too.
T. Greenwood
#12. Work helps. So does exercise. Stuff that numbs you, keeps you from thinking too much.
Olivia
#13. A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images.
George Sand
#14. Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race for attention.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
#15. It was just a colour out of space - a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the black extra-cosmic gulfs it throws open before our frenzied eyes.
H.P. Lovecraft
#17. If something's important to you, you make time for it.
Mia Maestro
#18. I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?
Joyce Maynard
#19. In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
Samuel E. Morison
#20. A song called Never. Which we never play. But it's a great song.
John Wozniak
#21. We can't be good unless we know what bad is, and it's a shame we're working against time.
Ray Bradbury
#22. A lot of guys get slammed pretty hard. I do think there's a tendency with women performers to just sort of write them off. The "Flavor of the Month" kind of thing. Or as a novelty, because I do think women in bands are still considered a novelty, or a little confection.
Nina Gordon
#23. If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance.
Haruki Murakami
#24. The key to a better life: Complain less, appreciate more. Whine less, laugh more. Talk less, listen more. Want less, give more. Hate less, love more. Scold less, praise more. Fear less, hope more.
Michael Josephson
#25. All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically
Steven Weinberg
#26. The liberating encounter with God/ess is always an encounter with our authentic selves resurrected from underneath the alienated self. It is not experienced against, but in and through relationships, healing our broken relations with our bodies, with other people, with nature.
Rosemary Radford Ruether
#27. I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#28. I'm a regular person with an extraordinary job.
Julia Roberts
#29. Local conservation programs can help our communities shape thoughtful growth.
Will Rogers
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