“When I’m invisible I don’t have to feel anything. The pain and grief and fear goes away. I go numb and quiet.” — Cecily Paterson Copy Share Image
If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The… — Dorothy Gilman Copy Share Image
I'd be on tour and have to pull over in the midst of a six-hour panic attack where I couldn't breather, my… — Matthew Koma Copy Share Image
“Ares. I know what sort of mission he’ll want. I’m too numb to even know what I’ll say when he asks. My… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“Watching television news of freeway wrecks, apartment-building fires, and heinous murders, one sat numb and unaffected. Music that had once stirred the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
You're put on this platform where you see beauty every day, and you kinda get numb to it. So then it's like,… — Rotimi Copy Share Image
I've been so numb, and nothing ever seems real. My sister said it's the alcohol, but I drink to feel. I've been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Numb, I took the perfectly browned puff. Okay. Let me see if I have this right. Al provokes me into defending myself.… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
“Does anybody know how I feel? Sometimes I'm numb... Sometimes I'm overcome... Does anybody care what's going on? Do I have to… — Zoegirl Copy Share Image
I contented myself with whiskey, for medicinal purposes. It helped numb my various aches and pains. Not that the alcohol actually reduced… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The air is precious to the red man, for all things share the same breath-the beast, the tree, the man, they all… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
She knows too well what it's like to tamp down your natural inclinations, to force a smile when you feel numb…The expression… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“I couldn't believe I let him see me like this, unable to fend for myself. I fumed in disgust at my vulnerability.… — Rebecca Donovan Copy Share Image
Be kind and gentle on yourself. In this fast-paced world, we are so hard on ourselves and impatient with healing. Unfortunately, there… — Amy Chan Copy Share Image
There are, broadly speaking, two types of drinkers. There is the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Lucy swayed in shock. A gust of wind moaned through the conservatory and blew out all but one of her candles. Simon… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
I turned away from him and went on my way, up the street and about my business. The past was dead. The… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
I don't think I will ever be able to really articulate how bizarre it was to hear my name at the Academy… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
But while ignorance can make you insensitive, familiarity can also numb. Entering the second half-century of an information age, our cumulative knowledge… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse Out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look but… — Pink Floyd Copy Share Image
I don't know why it's anyone's business! People do what they need to do. I did it, and it was nowhere near… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Ah Come on! I can't believe, The drama that I'm in, The flood is getting closer, I don't think they know that… — Escape The Fate Copy Share Image
Thank God I never hooked on anything. I never had a monkey on my back. I just wanted to self-medicate, to numb… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
I was faced with a choice: to deny my addiction and embrace that 'comfortably numb' but 'magicless' existence, or accept the burden… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
I dont kn y but it happens wid me... wen someone blame on me i feel tring to be numb becz I… — Sawan Copy Share Image
I feel I should not be ... so at the mercy of people's regard. And yet - it is the artist's desire… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
For what wears out the life of mortal men? 'Tis that from change to change their being rolls; Tis that repeated shocks,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
By default, most of us have taken the dare to simply survive. Exist. Get through. For the most part, we live numb… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
And then sometimes I think the people to feel saddest for are people who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“I think, I have reached a stage in life where I am oddly just so numb about things that upset me. I… — Diana Rikasari Copy Share Image
“Her expression almost never changed. Made it hard to tell what she was thinking. But also made her seem separate from the… — Yukari Yashiki Copy Share Image
If I'm going to cry, now is the time. By morning, I'll be able to wash all the damage done by the… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
When I broke my neck, I was told that I came within a millimeter of dying or being paralyzed from the neck… — Bruno Sammartino Copy Share Image
What I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is right that you feel… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun,… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn't be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I was poisoning myself with alcohol and medicating myself. I was trying to numb things. I was trying not to feel things,… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or… — Horace Copy Share Image
A Rescuer isn't always a person. Addictions to alcohol or drugs, sexual addiction, workaholism-all the ways we numb out-can rescue the Victim… — David Emerald Womeldorff Copy Share Image
