Calm Quote by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Download Open image “Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.” — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Calm Feels Numbness Peace Violence
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 Copy Share Image
I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't know why I am internally a violent person. I don't have the normal nerve endings most people do, which was very good… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
When people have been traumatized, they are stuck in paralysis-the immobility reaction or abrupt explosions of rage. — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
Mediocrity is no answer to violence. In fact, it probably invites violence. At least the mediocre and the violent appear together as in the old Western movies - the ruffian outlaw band shooting up main street and the little white church with the little white schoolteacher wringing her hands. To cool violence you need rhythm, humor, tempering; you need dance… — James Hillman Copy Share
Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If an individual has a calm state of mind, that person's attitudes and views will be calm and tranquil even in the presence of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
my love of water ... is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position -… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I'd choose to believe in God - He's been in business… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
Grandma, please. It’s okay. Dad’s doing a great job. I give him kudos for at least being calm and rational, and not losing his… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be! — Bryan Procter Copy Share Image
To practice Aikido fully you must calm the spirit and go back to the origin. — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Don't get divorced after your first argument! I have a lot of friends that have one fight and that's it, they get divorced. I… — Kelly Ripa Copy Share Image
The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages, only then will Israel be calm for the next 40 years. — Michael Ben-Ari Copy Share Image
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
When I was a child I truly loved: Unthinking love as calm and deep As the North Sea. But I have lived, And now… — John Gardner Copy Share Image