Quotes About Numbness

But first my feet will freeze and then my legs and then my insides, they will all turn to ice. And my blood, too, and my heart, and I will forget.

His broken heart was unfeeling, like shattered glass in an acid bath.

Perhaps never before has humankind been so alienated from so many of its normal feeling states, as it is in the twenty-first century. Never before have so many human beings been so emotionally deadened and impoverished.

freeze response is triggered when a person, realizing resistance is futile, gives up, numbs out into dissociation and/ or collapses as if accepting the inevitability of being hurt.

Constriction alters a person's breathing, muscle tone, and posture in order to promote efficiency and strength. Blood vessels in the skin, extremities, and internal organs constrict so that more blood is available to the muscles, which are tensed and prepared to take defensive action. At the same time, the digestive system is inhibited. We may also feel numb and shut down.

Great loss is felt by no one

The difference maybe between the living and the dead: the living often want to be numb, the dead never do ...

The difference maybe between the living and the dead: the living often want to be numb the dead never do, if they never want anything.

I am numb and badly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.

“They struck me, but I feel no pain! They beat me, but I did not know it! When can I wake up to search for another drink?”