Quotes About Numbness

Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.

I wanted it in the way you sometimes want to jump into very cold water, even though you know it won't feel good. I wanted to go numb. To see what it felt like to be someone else.

We will ourselves empty to numb us to our cruelty. We stiffen our faces and say we have needs. But to be empty is to have no purchase, nothing to grasp on to, and so in the emptiness we slide and we slide.

Numbness spread, allowing him to move his arms without the stabbing agony that had had him bathed in sweat over the last few hours.

I hate it when my leg falls asleep. I know that means it's going to be up all night.

She had no thoughts, no opinions, and had become a ringing nerve of pure sensation.

He wished he was made of stone, and did not have to feel anything.

I had just left Yes and had done a concert at Crystal Palace, South London, with a choir and orchestra playing my solo album 'Journey To The Centre Of The Earth' when I had my heart attack. That day, I hadn't been to bed for four days. I don't remember much. I felt very numb during the day and airy, which is the best way to describe it.

My hands twitch as they tremble and every nerve and muscle in my body is frozen—numb.

When things don't go the way you want them to, sometimes instead of feeling disappointment or heartache, you just become numb.

we're all doctors trading sadness for numbness grass looks much greener but it's green-painted cement the mayor's machines are there cleaning the pavement you can't make dirt clean so we'll just lemon-scent it

It was like she was so empty there wasn't even a feeling or thought in her.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

The pair were, in truth, but the ashes of their former fires. To the hot sorrow of the previous night had succeeded heaviness; it seemed as if nothing could kindle either of them to fervour of sensation any more.

He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness.

boredom is the coldest thing in the world.

That night she sat for hours, too numb to even drink, teaching herself to breathe in a vaccum. For this, oh God, was the void.

He didn't know what it was like to live between memory and regret with nothing to numb it.

I wish I could explain it so someone could understand it. I'm afraid it's something I can't put into words. There's just this heavy, overwhelming despair - dreading everything. Dreading life. Empty inside, to the point of numbness. It's like there's something already dead inside. My whole being has been pulling back into that void for months.

After a dozen deaths, you learn not to care. After a hundred, you can't even if you wanted to.

the look in her eyes told Hedström that she would never really be alive again. He'd seen it happen a few times in the course of his career. People who looked as if they were alive, who were breathing and moving about, and yet they were completely empty inside.

I think I have said enough of these horrible cases. There are hundreds of thousands of them, being so many of them finally makes the mind dulled, so that you almost cease to be shocked anymore. I did not imagine that such cruel people existed in the modern world. It would seem that only a rare, insane person like Jack the Ripper would act so.

Ah felt a paralysis ay emotion as time stretched out. A pervading numbness was setting in, like a dentist's anaesthetic, spreading through ma body.

La tristeza se había cristalizado en indiferencia.