Quotes About Numbness

Nothing", he said. "Except that my life, for the most part, has been very stale and colorless. Dead, I mean. The world has always been an empty place to me. I was incapable of enjoying even the simplest things. I felt dead in everything I did.

CLUN (n.) A leg which has gone to sleep and has to be hauled around after you.

And then sometimes I think the people to feel saddest for are people who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder – people who closed the doors that leads us into the secret world – or who had the doors closed for them by time and neglect and decisions made in times of weakness.

needed to get shit-faced and forget everything that had happened.

He didn't want to think about the past, present, or future. He didn't want to feel bad, or feel anything, so he drank some more.

The human capacity for grief. It just isn't capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen in number. And it doesn't just level off—it just gives up, resets itself to zero.

Perhaps we are no longer a kind people. More and more, we seem to have become numb to the suffering of others and ashamed of our own suffering. Yet suffering is one of the universal conditions of being alive. We all suffer. We have become terribly vulnerable, not because we suffer but because we have separated ourselves from each other.

The deadened seek out the living to exterminate feeling, either by making their targets join them in numbness or by intimidating or assaulting them into silence. In the landscape of silence, the three realms might be silence imposed from within; silence imposed from without; and silence that exists around what

Garraty watched apathetically and thought, even the horror wears thin. There's a surfeit even of death.

The bombing started up again, with explosions all around us, in broad daylight, but no one in the restaurant even flinched. Iraqis seemed numb after a quarter century under Saddam's whip-hand rule. It was heartbreaking to see what a harsh dictatorship can do to the human soul. In less than a week, I had grown almost inured to explosions and fires.

Possibly this is one more version of disappearing into your life, the way career telephone company bigwigs, overdutiful parents and owners of wholesale lumber companies are said to do and never know it. You simply reach a point at which everything looks the same but nothing matters much. There's no evidence you're dead, but you act that way.

Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb.

My philosophy on getting knocked out is that it renders you unconscious and numb, so why worry about it.

You can lose yourself in pleasure, 'til your body's going numb, but will it ever be enough.

I cannot account for this numbness of feeling that weighs me down and makes me helpless," he wrote sadly to Edward. "I think without a relief from all work, without a long and perfect holiday, I will never rise.

There was no point in looking again. He [Cork] knew that. No point except to feed the coldness inside him. In a strange way, that was exactly what he wanted now. He wanted to feed himself to the cold until the cold had consumed him and he didn't care anymore.

A Rescuer isnt always a person. Addictions to alcohol or drugs, sexual addiction, workaholismall the ways we numb outcan rescue the Victim from feeling his or her own feelings.

The students are asked to rate their level of surprise on a five-point scale from 'not surprised at all' to 'beyond shock'. Many describe feelings of total shock and numbness: a large majority indicate some level of surprise. He asks them: "Why were you surprised?

Spending all day in a sterile office environment, I'm too mentally numb to do anything but consume meaningless media," he says.

Numbness and cynicism, I suspect, are more often the products of frustrated compassion than of evil intentions.

I cross the place where my heart used to be and hope to be even deader than I am now.

He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.

I want a new liver to replace my heart.""Um, why?""Because then I could drink more and care less.

I don't hate you, because hate is a feeling and I feel absolutely nothing for you.