Quotes About Numbing Pain

#1. But for the unquiet heart and brain
A use in measured language lies;
The sad mechanic exercise
Like dull narcotics numbing pain.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#2. And I've just got to let myself feel the pain, because if I don't, if I keep numbing it, it'll never really go away.

Paula Hawkins

#3. Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

Ed Miliband

#4. Numbing the pain never goes to the source of the real issue to make us healthier. It only silences our screaming need for help.

Lysa TerKeurst

#5. Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing - resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings.

Joanna Macy

#6. Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

J.K. Rowling

#7. Maybe it shouldn't have come as such a surprise, but like a tooth extraction, there was a moment of intense pain and then a numbing sense of loss. I was officially unmarried.

Larry J. Dunlap

#8. See how the skilful lover spreads his toils.

Benjamin Stillingfleet

#9. What do we do after things fall apart? Do we run to the familiar once again? Do we attempt to numb the pain with distractions? What do we do after things fall apart?

Benyf

#10. Maybe my reliance on numbing is keeping me from the two things I was born for: learning and loving. I could go on hitting easy buttons until I die and feel no pain, but the cost of that decision could be that I'll never learn, love, or be truly alive.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#11. I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.

Chester Bennington

#12. The amount of painkillers I was given. Every time I had a pain in my leg I got used to numbing it out.

Sophie Anderton

#13. I was so tired once 'Abba' was over and just wanted to be calm and with my children. I married, was in 'Abba,' had my children, divorced, all in ten years. I wonder how I managed it, but I was young.

Agnetha Faltskog

#14. Cultivating hope Practicing critical awareness Letting go of numbing and taking the edge off vulnerability, discomfort, and pain

Brene Brown

#15. Yukiko stared back at him. Slurred words and a soft stare, that stupefied, slack-jawed look slinking over his face and turning his skin to gray. An anesthetic, numbing the pain of well deserved loss.

Jay Kristoff

#16. I'm not one about trying to slow things down. What I try to do is create an atmosphere for my family where we can pretty much have whatever.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#17. I think television is a big commitment, so it has to be something that you're really excited about and something that you want to potentially commit a lot of time to.

Danielle Panabaker

#18. And wished with all her heart that she wasn't so tired, wished that a broken wrist would radiate violent pain instead of this strange numbing ache that was exhausting her by its subtlety and consistency.

Dorothy Gilman

#19. The more one moves toward change, the more desperate one becomes and despair increases. The natural reaction is to hide as far away from pain as possible and as much as possible, numbing the associated emotions.

David W. Earle

#20. We all find means of anesthesia.

Brunonia Barry

#21. This is life. It's messy and unpredictable, full of wonderful surprises and mind.numbing disappointment. the uncertainty of it all is why I hide, trying to avoid all the pain and the heartache.

Denise Grover Swank

#22. Once you start parsing a face, it's a peculiar item: squishy, pointy, with lots of air vents and wet spots.

Susanna Kaysen

#23. Anger was a reliable defense, but one that allowed no chance of final victory. Anger was a medicine but never a cure, briefly numbing the pain without extracting the thorn that caused the agony.

Dean Koontz

#24. By putting you into an enchanted sleep and allowing you to postpone the moment when you would have to think about what has happened tonight, I would do it. But I know better. Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. You

J.K. Rowling