Quotes About Numbness

There is nothing more terrifying than lying in the ring and feeling that your hand has gone numb.

No, sir. I won't complain. Except when I move it sharp and sudden, my arm is real numb. It's the rest of me that's in misery." "Where?" "My backside and my privates. I'm stuck so full of prickers, it makes me smart just to think on it.

all horrors are dulled by routine.

If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss. From the sharp pain of immediate berevement, both the Prince and I passed into the gray days of numb bewilderment and waiting. So grief has always seemed to me, a time of waiting not for the hurt to pass, but to become accustomed to it.

Surrendering that pain to stone had deadened me in a way that was a relief, but there was a darker side to that forgetting. I've seen folk who numbed their pain with strong drink or Smoke or other herbs and always the loss of their pain made them less connected. Less human. And so it was with me. Every

We prayed until our faith passed into an exhaustion that numbed us to sleep.

Fools. Do they pity Kanna? But Kanna cannot feel a thing, be it pain, fear or sorrow. She cannot even understand the reason for your pity.- Naraku

After a day of heat and hunger, one is weak and listless. But a certain stuport, an internal numbness, has its benefits: man could not survive here without it, for otherwise the biological, animal part of his nature would bite to death everything that is still human in him.

This behavior may...counteract feelings of'numbness'and depersonalization that aries duriing periods of extreme stress.-153 Girl,Interrupted

The fine wall of leaden crystal that had protected her heart - somehow numbed her into disbelief - shattered.

When you feel helpless, you'll do just about any old thing to shut off your head.

What he felt was something larger than fear, a narcotic terror that numbed him completely, made it impossible to imagine moving.

If you repeat a word again and again, it loses it's meaning. Apparently this also works with heartbreak.

I have been around a lot of addiction in my life, and I knew what I was feeling—the addicted person's craving for the thing that numbs their nagging sense of hollowness.

Feeling nothing was now a badge of honour.

I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say Look! I have no hands! But the people all around me say: What are hands?

When you start drinking, everything goes out of the window. You don't care about anything. You don't even care about yourself.

He was empty of response. There was a hollow feeling

After a while, I hurt so much I didn't feel any difference.

By then I didn't have enough feeling left in my body to cry.

Grief is when your eyes still see but have stopped looking.

You come and the time slips away in a dream. It is only when you go that I realize completely your presence. And then it is too late. You numb me.

Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.

I an not happy. I am not unhappy. I am frozen somewhere in the middle that is so much worse. I am NOWHERE. Nothing is happening and I am getting more and more sad.