Quotes About Feeling Numb

#1. The psychological distress symptoms of traumatized people simultaneously call attention to the existence of an unspeakable secret and deflect attention from it. This is most apparent in the way traumatized people alternate between feeling numb and reliving the event.

Judith Lewis Herman

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. senses could be dulled, and you might withdraw into yourself, feeling numb and empty.

Wes Burgess

#5. I think there are times in life when you need something to lose yourself in, something to take away the pain, take away the feeling of everything else. Something to numb it. Just for a while. - Nash

M. Leighton

#6. I think grief is a step towards strength because it allows you to be porous and take everything in, and have it transform you. What will sit within you is despairing, but at least it's feeling. You're not numb. Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling.

Carrie Brownstein

#7. It's a great group of people here at Texas A&M, and everybody you run into is incredibly polite.

Johnny Manziel

#8. 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

#9. Jokes are the declarations of fools.

Samantha Shannon

#10. 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

#11. My brain, my body, my whole life was on fast-forward and I couldn't push stop or even pause. How low it got after, living with what had happened. And then how numb. How much I missed feeling music in my bones.

Emery Lord

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

Haruki Murakami

#13. 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

#14. How is feeling like a failure supposed to help me? The way I see it, they should invent some pill that just makes you forget whatever you want, some pill that makes you numb and functional.

Amy Reed

#15. He had to stand on guard against his own feeling - as if some part of him had become a stranger that had to be kept numb, and his will had to be its constant, watchful anesthetic.

Ayn Rand

#16. 216 hours . . . of feeling dead. 12,960 minutes . . . of feeling lost. 777,600 seconds . . . of feeling completely numb.

Gail McHugh

#17. Billions of things are going on in this world. You can think about it all you want, but life is still going to keep on happening.

Michael Singer

#18. It all started in December when it grew cold, i drove in feeling icy and numb...but as i saw the moon rising above the smoke it made me feel alive & enlightening up my Soul...

PP

#19. Grace isn't something we deserve, Gabriel," Julia said softly. "It comes from love. And God wraps the world in second chances and sticky little leaves and mercy, even though some people don't want them.

Sylvain Reynard

#20. A Rescuer isn't always a person. Addictions to alcohol or drugs, sexual addiction, workaholism-all the ways we numb out-can rescue the Victim from feeling his or her own feelings.

David Emerald Womeldorff

#21. My personal feeling is that audiences are crying out for stories they can invest in and feel. I see a lot of big movies that leave me feeling rather numb.

Emily Blunt

#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. 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

#24. You never get bored with God in action.

Loren Cunningham

#25. After two weeks of feeling dead numb, I decided the sewage system needed the pills more than I did, so I flushed them all down the toilet.

Kate Ellison

#26. Tell me some true things about fighting.'Tell me you love me.'I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places.

Ernest Hemingway,

#27. Kayleigh was right. Without the pills, you really do feel nothing.
And nothing can be nice.

Beth Revis

#28. 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

#29. It wasn't that she was sad - sadness had very little to do with it, really, considering that most of the time, she felt close to nothing at all. Feeling required nerves, connections, sensory input. The only thing she felt was numb. And tired. Yes, she very frequently felt tired.

Nenia Campbell

#30. At this moment I am feeling disappointed with myself and I am hurt and numb

Ronnie O'Sullivan