Quotes About Numbness

But he had been so much hurt that something inside him had perished, some of his feelings had gone. There was a blank of insentience.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

I do not seem to have felt anything yet,' said Averil, passing her hands over her face. 'I seem to be made of stone.' 'You have done: and that is better than feeling.

The second trait is our numbness to injustice. It comes from our environment. We are exposed to corruption from our childhood. Almost

I felt as we floundered aimlessly about in the snow that it made little difference to me whether I lived or died. It seemed to me that the terrible journey would have no end. I was awake and aware of all that was transpiring around me, but had lost all feeling and power of speech, and existed like an animated dead man.

The opposite of love is not hate, I believe. It's simply no longer caring.

You must be all a-tingle with excitement.' 'I guess so,' I said, but I did not feel a-tingle. I did not feel a-anything.

How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!

I am probably a bit numb upstairs, which is sometimes a good thing.

I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they cant feel anymore.

Sam took another sip of the pruno. It went down smoother this time, possibly because he no longer had feeling in his extremities.

I love the slow, warming sensation of my body going numb when I drink.

If there is complete absence of delight, it only spells insentiency.

Po jakim? czasie cz?owiek przyzwyczaja si?, zapomina i nawet nie czuje, ?e zimno, bo zapomnia?, co to jest ciep?o.

Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.

In the beginning war looks and feels like love. But unlike love it gives nothing in return but an ever-deepening dependence, like all narcotics, on the road to self-destruction. It does not affirm but places upon us greater and greater demands. It destroys the outside world until it is hard to live outside war's grip. It takes a higher and higher dose to achieve any thrill. Finally, one ingests war only to remain numb.

Going through the motions, like a person who was already dead and just didn't know it yet.

When Vivian describes how it felt to be at the mercy of strangers, Molly nods. She knows full well what it's like to tamp down your natural inclinations, to force a smile when you feel numb. After a while you don't know what your own needs are anymore.

I shrank back, my face flaming as if I'd been struck. And in that moment something changed. I didn't trust her anymore. When she cried, I felt numb. After that, she called me heartless, unfeeling. And maybe I was. A

Man seeks oblivion .

The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life.

The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life. I was turning into a hawk.

He held me so tightly that numbness stretched all the way down my arms and only let go a few minutes after he did. It wasn't as nice a feeling as the flag around my shoulders. But I felt more certain of it because it lasted longer.

gloomy, pensive, discontented temper This melancholy flatters, but unmans you; What is it else but penury of soul, A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind? —JOHN DRYDEN AT