Your tongue bores me numb. Terror toma carcinoma speaking…

She still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike anything she'd…

— Kristin Hannah

When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse Out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look but it was…

— Pink Floyd

“The true answer held my chest like an unwanted hand’s sudden touch, uncomfortable and unfeeling.”

— Aspen Matis

“I see,' Rick said. He felt numb. Completely. Throughout his entire body.”

— Philip K. Dick

“But it takes courage to want things, and to pursue them. Staying numb means you can never be disappointed.”

— Sarina Bowen

I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they cant feel anymore.

— John Bradshaw

“Being numb no longer suits me. It’s ill-fitting and I’m antsy about it. I find myself snapping back at people more. Or writing little…

— Shonda Rhimes

“Never pass up an opportunity to expand your mind (or numb it).”

— Anonymous

As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb.…

— Susan Sontag

How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you kill the…

— Jenny Holzer

What I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is right that you feel it all…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

You work on something for so long that you become numb to it. Like, you don't even know how to listen to it because…

— Brent Faiyaz

I think violence in movies, for it to work, you have to use it smartly. People get numb very fast. If you have too…

— Fede Alvarez

Because I'm not, in fact, depressed, Prozac makes me manic and numb - one of the reasons I slice my arm in the first…

— Marya Hornbacher

We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with…

— Nina Simone