Numb Quotes

263 quotes by 208 authors

At this moment I am feeling disappointed with myself and I am hurt and numb — Ronnie O'Sullivan
For what wears out the life of mortal men? 'Tis that from change to change their being rolls; Tis that repeated shocks, again, again, Exhaust… — Matthew Arnold
I was poisoning myself with alcohol and medicating myself. I was trying to numb things. I was trying not to feel things, and that's ridiculous.… — Johnny Depp
Thank God I never hooked on anything. I never had a monkey on my back. I just wanted to self-medicate, to numb myself through liquor.… — Johnny Depp
My philosophy on getting knocked out is that it renders you unconscious and numb, so why worry about it. — Forrest Griffin
If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive… — Dorothy Gilman
A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other. — John Gould
The fact that you can love something that you've lost is all the incentive you need to love again, as opposed to becoming comfortably numb. — Cee Lo Green
When I look at a pie chart, I just go numb. — Aaron Koblin
That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we… — Kathy Mattea
Numb is the new deep, done with the old me, and talk is the same cheap it's been. — John Mayer
'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it'll leave… — Jerry Saltz
I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be… — Wislawa Szymborska
Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime. — Matt Taibbi
I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb… — Judith Wright
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you… — Diane Setterfield
A great numb feeling washes over me as I let go of the past and look forward to the future. Pretend to be a vampire.… — Bret Easton Ellis
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… — Jeanette Winterson
And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn't and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing... this… — Bret Easton Ellis
So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you… — Sylvia Plath

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