Numb Quotes
263 quotes by 208 authors
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I have outlasted all desire, My dreams and I have grown apart; My grief alone is left entire, The gleamings of an empty heart. The…
— Alexander Pushkin
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remember the golden apple-trees; O, do not pity them, as you watch them drop one by one, for they fall exhausted, numb, blind but in…
— Hilda Doolittle
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I will cling to the rope God has thrown me in Jesus Christ, even when my numb hands can no longer feel it.
— Sophie Scholl
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I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.
— Sylvia Plath
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Sleep is still difficult I sleep for three or four hours a day. Usually sometime in the afternoon. I walk in the cold, keep myself…
— James Frey
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I love the slow, warming sensation of my body going numb when I drink.
— Patricia Gaffney
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He felt strangely numb. As though from a great distance, he was aware that he was being beaten. The last sensations of pain left him.…
— Jack London
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Kindness was the last thing she needed. She had to stay in the icy place, the numb place, and their warmth threatened to melt her…
— Janet Fitch
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As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To…
— Susan Sontag
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On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because, in some unlit corner of his…
— Dean Koontz
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I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core…
— Sylvia Plath
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People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrails splattering across a screen as a sign…
— Holly Black
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Staring in the darkness, trying to sleep. My body was aching with tiredness. My limbs were numb. My sightless eyes were crazed with light/ I…
— Kevin Brooks
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The truth is, I feel beyond sad. I feel empty. Numb.
— Elizabeth Scott
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All the fear in the world, and the violence that comes from the fear, and the hatred that comes from the violence, and the lonliness…
— William Nicholson
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Struggling and suffering are the essence of a life worth living. If you're not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you're not demanding more…
— Dean Karnazes
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You live your life like it’s a rare treasure to be savored. You take pleasure from the simplest of things and you never take them…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Embarrassment is the worst! It's the feeling of having your entire body go numb and not knowning what to do with yourself for that one…
— Miley Cyrus
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Already Roland feels his limbs starting to go numb. He swallows hard. "I hate this. I hate you. I hate all of you." "I understand.
— Neal Shusterman
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you can't kill love. you can't even kill it with hate. you can kill in-love, and loving, and even loveliness. you can kill them all,…
— Gregory David Roberts
Who Wrote These Numb Quotes
208 authors contributed a total of 263 Numb Quotes, led by these top contributors: