Quotes About Numbness

He called up the numbness with which he armed himself to get through each day.

But I didn't hear her, couldn't, was already gone, turning and walking out the door with the food in my hands to the parking lot before I even knew what was happening. Over the years I had perfected removing myself from situations. It was kind of like automatic pilot; I just shut down and retreated, my brain clicking off before anything that hurt could sink in.

You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, that was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.

How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out?

I want my whole life lined with a topical anesthetic.

El dolor no cuajó alrededor de nada.

Anhedonia', which means the clinical inability to experience happiness.

There is a feeling of disbelief that comes over you, that takes over, and you kind of go through the motions. You do what you're supposed to do, but in fact you're not there at all.

It was the face of a human being who'd been constructed exclusively of wounds. Not time or history or ambition, nothing but wounds. The face of a person who could probably kill someone without feeling anything whatsoever.

I'm not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.

Mouth to mouth I'm bringing you back to life. Why did you drown like that without telling? What numbed you? What rose over your head was gradual and only everybody's air, standard & killing. Your head floats on your hand, on water, you turn over, your heart returns unsteadily to its two strong notes. I'm bringing you back to life, it's mutual.

A frost lay over all her emotions and she thought that she would never feel anything warmly again.

The shock of twentieth-century technology numbed our brains and we are just beginning to notice the spiritual and social debris that our technology has strewn about us.

It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.

Here we are, older, scared, numb on some days, enraged on others, with even less trust than we had a year ago. The devastating pandemic, and the federal government's confused and deadly response, was simply the final straw to a few years of crushing developments.

The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.

The physical shock took away the pain of being.

That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.

I learned how to stop crying. I learned how to hide inside of myself. I learned how to be somebody else. I learned how to be cold and numb.

Or maybe I could have anesthetized myself with homework and extra credit and binge-reading.

So what's it like to live without emotions? (Geary) It's hard. Imagine a world without taste. A world where you can see the colors and all, but you can't feel it. A beautiful clear day can never choke you up. A child's laughter doesn't make you smile. You don't look at a bunny and think 'how cute.' You feel absolutely nothing. It's like being wrapped in thick cotton all the time. (Arik)

Funny how when your life is mostly bullshit, you turn off feeling. Sometimes it's hard to turn it back on again.

I fear that a life of death has made me numb to both.

He had lost control over his own body, he realized dully.