Numbness Quotes

Numbness Quote of the day

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.

Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.

I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.

I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.

Numb the dark and you numb the light.

Of course there is nothing the matter with the stars It is my emptiness among them While they drift farther away in the invisible morning

How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?

The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.

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

I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.

I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know who's seeking me. My boredom with everything has numbed me. I feel banished from my soul.

We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.

I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.

Personal voice- prophesy- disrupts the state of communal numbness in which most of us exist.

Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain.

When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard.

This morning I suddenly catch myself: I'm not there, I'm so lost in thought, I don't know what's going on around me. Can you think yourself to death?

I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added.

One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief.

But what would that be like feeling the tide rise out of the numbness inside

Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.

As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside.

A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind.

I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.

No matter what feeling comes up - numbness, irritability, shame - if I let it arise and play itself through, I naturally open into wakefulness and care.

Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.

He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness.

Pain is always preferable to numbness.

Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.

I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness.

She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.

I want someone to pinch me so I can feel something, anything. I'm sick of this numbness, of feeling so alone and outside of everything, but I know it's too dangerous to wake up." —Ruth Mendenberg

I grow numb; I grow stiff. How shall I break up this numbness which discredits my sympathetic heart?

There's a numbness in our culture to the continuing horrors of genocide.

I'm up all night against my will My medicine won't let me feel anything at all The doctor gave me sleeping pills and I took one Then I feel all alone, sleeping like a stone.

You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.

I have carpal tunnel so I can't write more than four hours total without tingling numbness. I take a lot of breaks and do stretches.

Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness--these please me alone; Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.

People talk about the pain of grief, but I don't know what they mean. To me, grief is a devastating numbness, every sensation dulled.

Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness.

She examined me, she looked at me critically and said, "Why are you trying to starve yourself?" To keep myself from feeling love, from feeling lust, from feeling anything at all.

The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics as avoidance, numbness, and denials.

Wasn't it time she risked getting hurt again, instead of just accepting the numbness of never letting anyone in?

Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone.

... when he kissed her, she received the kiss without returning it, her eyes wide open, not afraid, not a virgin's eyes, just flat and uninvolved.

She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed to be.

Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.

Apathy is a spiritual numbness that creeps in and corrupts the good that God intends for our life and the good that He wants us to accomplish for Him and His kingdom.

He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.