Quotes About Being Numb

#1. Being numb is good for a while, until it's not anymore.

Ann Aguirre

#2. Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.

Yasmin Mogahed

#3. I'd be in my hotel room, smoking too much, drinking, going to clubs, just being numb. That was being in jail to me. I wasn't happy at all on the streets. That was the addict speaking.

Tupac Shakur

#4. The good thing about being numb is that no one can hurt you, but the bad thing about being numb is that no one can love you.

Kaiylah Muhammad

#5. Continental three-dollar bill, designed by Benjamin Franklin. An eagle fights a crane, with the motto "Exitus in dubio est," "The outcome is in doubt.

Kathleen DuVal

#6. What business would judged on the first week that it's in business?

Nick Kroll

#7. But you can't go around changing your definition of right and wrong (or smart and stupid) just because doing the wrong thing happens to be really convenient.

Jim Butcher

#8. 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

#9. There's so many lies being told throughout the media and people just run with the lies. They're numb to it. Too many followers, not enough leaders.

Big Boi

#10. The thing is, being lonely is like walking in the cold without a coat. It's uncomfortable, but eventually you go numb. Once you get used to not being lonely, though, the shock of going back is like having your down comforter yanked off at six o'clock on a Minnesota December morning.

Maggie Hall

#11. Let's get rid of those fucking ghosts once and for all, Proph. We tried burying them, but that never works. So how about we just set them free?"
"And let them go into the light, Carol Anne?"
"And just like that, you're a goddamned bastard again." But Tom was smiling as he said it.

S.E. Jakes

#12. Isabel wondered if there would ever be a time when she could stop being careful. If there would ever be a time when she could use other kinds of power. She missed it. It felt like part of her had been injected with novocaine and was totally numb. Almost dead (p.35).

Melinda Metz

#13. For a thorough understanding of rowing, for the what, the how and the why, the books making up Peter Mallory's The Sport of Rowing certainly do it all.

Anita DeFrantz

#14. The hiatus you spoke about happened in 1998. I was somewhat numb from being out on the road every night. I had to stop because I was emotionally and physically drained.

Chuck Mangione

#15. Then each of you will control his own body and live in holiness and honor- not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways.

Paul The Apostle

#16. Now you see, Dr. Stadler, you're speaking as if this book were addressing to a thinking audience. If it were, one would have to be concerned with such matters as accuracy, validity, logic and the prestige of science. But it isn't. It's addressed to the public.

Ayn Rand

#17. My girlfriends are my life, but I'm also one of those girls who can hang out with the guys.

Sophia Bush

#18. Don't underestimate your own triumphs. Leave it to the enemy.
# Krishn

Sweety Shinde

#19. Her smile could wash away a thousand doubts as soon as light up a room.

Belinda Jeffrey

#20. So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state.

Sylvia Plath

#21. If you have any setback in your life, like not being in the England squad was for me - any setback, like losing a family member - everyone handles it in different ways. When I first wasn't included I was numb. I'd been the main England striker for years and years. It was really disappointing.

Michael Owen

#22. I just let the pain take over, allowing it to numb the pain of being left behind.

Jessica Sorensen

#23. The sense of being two men - one bent on desperate measures, the other already in the numb of mourning - felt like the last weeks of his marriage.

James S.A. Corey

#24. That's the trouble with being scared all the time. Eventually, people just go numb.

Mira Grant

#25. He felt strangely numb. As though from a great distance, he was aware that he was being beaten. The last sensations of pain left him. He no longer felt anything, though very faintly he could hear the impact of the club upon his body. But it was no longer his body, it seemed so far away.

Jack London

#26. Taste, like identity, has value only when there are differences,

Carlo Petrini

#27. Most of the criticism of my work was pretty good, but occasionally it would not be. And I just sort of felt that they absolutely didn't get what I was doing. It was their limitations on what they thought art should be or what they thought my work should be in relation to earlier work or whatever.

Robert Barry

#28. For what wears out the life of mortal men? 'Tis that from change to change their being rolls; Tis that repeated shocks, again, again, Exhaust the energy of strongest souls And numb the elastic powers.

Matthew Arnold

#29. I don't know why it's anyone's business! People do what they need to do. I did it, and it was nowhere near as traumatic as being raped. I was so numb for so long that sex work for me was not a big deal.

Margaret Cho

#30. Claire didn't understand the appeal of being drugged. She had thought the purpose was to make you numb, but if anything, she was feeling everything much too intensely. She couldn't shut down her brain. She felt shaky. Her tongue was too thick for her mouth. Maybe she was doing it wrong.

Karin Slaughter