Quotes About Numbness

I want my whole life lined with a topical anesthetic.

la de la apatía generalizada que lo llevaba a una especie de muerte emocional.

Disgust, horror and pity are emotions that our spectator could not really feel anymore. The sufferers, the dying and the dead, became such common place sights to him after a few weeks of camp life that they could not move him anymore.

It was all he'd felt for too long to change now. Maybe it was too late for any other kind of life. This was all he knew. It was safe, insulated. Familiar. An absense of emotion kept him sane. Or what passed for it.

it being her experience that the religious ecstasy made people callous (so did causes); dulled their feelings

How shall I break up this numbness which discredits my sympathetic heart?

Sapeva per esperienza che le estasi religiose induriscono la gente, ottundono i sentimenti.

But, Danny decided, being scared was better than being numb.

She did not even have words, only a feeling, a terrible hollow feeling, as if everything inside her had been scooped out raw.

we live in a system, an ideology, and probably a wounded psychology that allow full feeling only sporadically. The system numbs us; it also depends on our numbness.

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.

The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility.

I'd rather feel pain than nothing at all

There have been moments in my life when I've become numb to certain aspects of myself that I found frightening. Or I've conformed to certain morals of society and then maybe rebelled or found a way out.

You can only get hurt so much before you get numb.

I remember the first time I held a rifle - the metal was so cold, and it's so heavy. I also didn't know the amount of pressure I had to use. My first finger went numb for a week.

Anti-depressants helped me get up in the morning and stopped me from being sad, but what they also do is stop you from being happy. So I was just in this numb state. I stopped laughing at jokes, and that's just not me.

In real life, I don't cry too easily. I go numb.

I was fully burnt out - and in some ways I think that was good, because I was just fully numb.

I am a man who believes nothing, hopes nothing, fears nothing, feels nothing. I am beyond the pale of humanity [...]

We all get the opportunity to feel wonder every day, but we've been lulled into numbness. Have you ever driven home from work, opened your front door, and asked yourself how you got there? I know for sure that I don't want to live a shut-down life—desensitized to feeling and seeing. I want every day to be a fresh start on expanding what is possible. On experiencing joy on every level.

She shed no tears. She just sat there, as if someone had cut out her heart.

People can numb themselves, get used to anything.

A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.