Quotes About Numbness

If you see one dead body, it's awful and compelling and hard to tear one's eyes away. If you see a hundred they start to mean nothing.

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness painsMy sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,Or emptied some dull opiate to the drainsOne minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk.

Everything that comes into Jean's view these days is met with this kind of abject indifference. She feels as thought she has exhausted her life's allotment of emotion, good and bad.

The strangest thing was that I felt it, I felt everything. Normally I feel nothing but itching, discomfort, tightness, soreness. The surface of my skin is dulled by scars, lots of it is numb -- nerve damage, apparently. When he touched me, I felt everything. It was like having new skin.

She lay there all the day, falling out of her deep sleep into a hurt dream now and then but gathering back into nothingness and numbness in the end.

The truth is, I feel beyond sad. I feel empty. Numb.

I want to care, but I don't. I look at you and all I feel is tired. I walk through school and all I want to do is leave. I wake up in the morning and don't know why I'm here. I feel like I'm not real.

I didn't feel anything watching him go. I didn't even wish I did.

I want to care, but I don't. I look at you and all I feel is tired. I walk through school and all I want to do is leave. I wake up in the morning and don't know why I'm here. I feel like I'm not real. I feel like I died when everyone else on the plane did and I'm the only one who's noticed.

It's like an icicle in my heart

There seems to me to be something admirable, indeed noble, about the people arguing over Richard III. They're doers rather than naysayers, romantics rather than realists, people looking for meaning rather than numbness.

You know that feeling when your leg falls asleep and you can't really feel it or move it? Well, that's what my legs feel like all the time, so being fluid and graceful has been difficult.

No había nada más frío, nada mas muerto que su corazón.

We are angered even by the full acceptance of our humiliating confessions—how much more by hearing in hard distinct syllables from the lips of a near observer, those confused murmurs which we try to call morbid, and strive against as if they were the oncoming of numbness!

I am 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.

When a heart breaks it makes no noise. There are no outward signs, no rash, no bruising. Only a strange calmness that takes over when there are no more tears to shed and no more voice left to howl one's greed into the silence and the resignation that numbs one's senses like a drug, for how else would one be able to go on? People survive in spite of themselves.

No one knows how to feel anything anymore. No one knows anymore. Ain't no one care. People have, like, experiences. Everything just another experience. They do things, but they don't feel it. It just all goes right through them. Like they a ghost. Like we all ghosts.

I didn't want to talk, mostly because I didn't cry, mostly because I was numb. But didn't they realize I was trying to spare them from my pain?

At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.

De gewenning zou ons hebben gevoerd naar dat roemloze maar ook ramploze einde dat het leven bewaart voor degenen die de langzame afstomping door slijtage niet afwijzen.

Millions of people walked through their lives numb, dying to feel something, to feel alive. To be chosen by Cordova for a film was an opportunity for just that, not simply for fame and fortune, but to leave their old selves behind like discarded clothes.

He really did not care whether he survived or not, so long as it rendered him unconscious and absolved him of responsibility.

Because I'm too drunk to feel the pain if you hit me, and if you kill me I'll be glad to be dead.

Stuff yourself full of kippers, Luke said. Then it will be impossible to feel anything at all.