Quotes About Desensitization

I think people are getting more and more - unfortunately - inured to violence. People are like, less sensitive to things they should wake up about.

I've become rather desensitized to how much sexy I put out.

We live in a world where sort of nothing is shocking anymore.

Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.

The fact that I win and lose money all the time helps desensitize me, so I can write down $60,000 as the Final Jeopardy wager and not be trembling at the thought of losing that money.

I remember thinking I couldn't be bothered to feel any emotions any more.

Play with murder enough and it gets you one of two ways. It makes you sick, or you get to like it.

We have become desensitized. Watching, night after night, day after day, year after year, the horrors going on all over the world have desensitized us exactly as those soldiers have been deliberately brutalized. No one set out to brutalize us, to make us callous; but that is what we increasingly are.

it's depressing what a man can get used to

All the PG-13 superhero movies are depriving me of the gore that I need.

Garraty watched apathetically and thought, even the horror wears thin. There's a surfeit even of death.

The bombing started up again, with explosions all around us, in broad daylight, but no one in the restaurant even flinched. Iraqis seemed numb after a quarter century under Saddam's whip-hand rule. It was heartbreaking to see what a harsh dictatorship can do to the human soul. In less than a week, I had grown almost inured to explosions and fires.

The first time she slit a man's throat she felt sick to her stomach. The second time? Not so much.

It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.

I had gotten too comfortable. I was desensitized whenever I got in the water. I started riding big waves for that rush, but now that feeling is nonexistent.

I got desensitized by riding so many big waves that I don't really get a rush anymore.

You can get used to horror, he thought. When it has lost immediacy and is no longer pungent and has become a steady diet. When it has degraded to a chain of mind-numbing events. ("Lover When You're Near Me")

Again he shook his head. The world's gone mad, he thought. The dead walk about and I think nothing of it. The return of corpses has become trivial in import. How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it enough!

A surfeiting of terror soon made terror a cliché.

Strange as it may seem, horror loses its power to frighten when repeated too often.

They are so accustomed to the feeling that their senses are deadened to it;

Inside, I had a pit in my stomach. What had the world become that children were now discussing their own death, as though it were a menu option? As I looked around and saw the blank faces clustered amongst us, I realized that our emotions might be the first thing we are forced to abandon in war. That the numbness that engulfed our senses was the only way we could sustain ourselves against all the chaos.