Quotes About Numbness

He glances toward his cell, which is vibrating again, but I don't follow his gaze. I stay with him, trying to hold on so he won't get pulled away whenever an unwanted feeling appears and go numb. People often mistake numbness for nothingness, but numbness isn't the absence of feelings; it's a response to being overwhelmed by too many feelings.

People often mistake numbness for nothingness, but numbness isn't the absence of feelings; it's a response to being overwhelmed

Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.

Once an emotion is toxically shame bound, one feels numb. The emotional avoidance is sealed by learning to avoid the avoidance.

Shame is the master emotion because it binds all the other emotions. Freely expressing our feelings is like thawing out. As shame binds all our feelings, we become psychologically numb.

Our feelings are who we are at any given moment. When we are numb to our emotions, we lose contact with who we are.

When our e-motions are not mirrored and named, we lose contact with one of our vital human powers. Parents who are out of touch with their own emotions cannot model those emotions for their children. They are out of touch and shut down. They are psychically numb. They are not even aware of what they are feeling. Their children have to unconsciously carry their feelings for them.

Did we, as a nation, miss something? Did we recognize ourselves as going downhill with the brakes off? Did we realize that we were being numbed and shell-shocked with far greater shocks still to come?

I cant wait for the day when I get to look at you and feel absolutely nothing.

Alcohol is not the answer to all questions.. But, if you don't get the answer it helps you to forget the question.

I can't wait for the day I get to look at you and feel absolutely nothing.

I know I'm a mess and I can't keep acting like I'm fine. Because all I am is dead inside.

I've been choking to death for years. By now this should be easy.

I fear death. I think I must learn to romanticize death so that I can cope with its brutal irreversible numbness...!

Are you tired?" he said, looking at me closely. Was I? I was wide awake, and yet part of me was so glassed-off and numb I was practically in a coma. "If you'd rather have company? Perhaps if I build a fire in the other room? Tell me what you want." At this question, I felt a sharp rush of despair—for as bad as I felt there was nothing he could do for me, and from his face, I realized he knew that, too.

What numbs us imprisons us.

I had become comfortable with my own numbness; to suddenly remember I was male and not yet dead was a nuisance.

This generosity of spirit—this caring about others and about the proposition that we are all created equal—is the single most effective antidote to the self-centered moral numbness that allows Fascism to thrive.

The numbness now is merciful. A last few moments of it. Then, the fall.

A wonderful warmth and numbness embraced his body. He was free, sitting in a rustic little café in an Italian town he'd never heard of, drinking wine, and inhaling the smells of a delicious feast

It's as if you've been shot in the heart, Bill, but you're unaware of the hole or the loss of blood. I doubt you even heard the shot!

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness,—- That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.

The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it, Was never said in rhyme.

My heart aches, a drowsy numbness pains as if of hemlock I had drunk.