Feeling Numb Quote by Burgess,, Wes

“Sometimes you have to lose your mind before you come to your senses.”

— Socrates

“I was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view.”

— haruki murakami

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

— Jean Webster

“I can make you blind and senseless to them, but it’ll be in your nature to fret about that strange emptiness. As if you’re…

— Steven Erikson

“What can you do when your five senses are not enough?”

— Jeff VanderMeer

“You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn't decide exactly what…

— Ann Brashares

“But now and then, beneath the outer numbness, something stirred, like a living pain waiting for the anesthetic to wear away.”

— Zilpha Keatley Snyder

“I lay with open eyes in a state of utter absence from myself and felt deliciously out of it.”

— Knut Hamsun

“My mind was so dull, my nerves so worn from waiting, that only an emotionless vacuum remained.”

— Gerda Weissmann Klein

“The world hazed around me. I felt everything without feeling any thing.”

— Courtney C. Stevens

“I live so resolutely apart from physical contingencies that my senses no longer trouble to inform me of them.”

— Marcel Proust

“I am left with a feeling and I cannot tell if it's emptiness or fullness.”

— Samantha Schutz