Numb Quotes

263 quotes by 208 authors

The ideaâ€”the fact of it, the fact that he even noticed and thought about me for more than one secondâ€”is huge and overwhelming, makes my… — Lauren Oliver
We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions. — BrenÃ© Brown
Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench. — Chief Seattle
Despite the heat in her face, it felt as if cold needles of ice were running up and down her veins. "What are you doing… — Cassandra Clare
And then sometimes I think the people to feel saddest for are people who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb… — Douglas Coupland
Knowledge can be a subtle curse. When we learn about the world, we also learn all the reasons why the world cannot be changed. We… — Jonah Lehrer
No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had not opened since… — Andre Gide
He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness. — Thomas Harris
I was not allowed to think of him. That was something I tried to be very strict about. Of course I slipped; I was only… — Stephenie Meyer
I'm numb and I'm tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I'd been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without… — Ray Bradbury
I learned how to stop crying. I learned how to hide inside of myself. I learned how to be somebody else. I learned how to… — Sherman Alexie
You can't fix stupid, but you can numb it was a 2 by 4.--T-SHIRT — Darynda Jones
Numb the dark and you numb the light. — BrenÃ© Brown
I turned away from him and went on my way, up the street and about my business. The past was dead. The future was resignation,… — Cornell Woolrich
It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you and a world… — John O'Donohue
Church always seemed the same. Jess could tune it out the same way he tuned out school, with his body standing up and sitting down… — Katherine Paterson
I just let the pain take over, allowing it to numb the pain of being left behind. — Jessica Sorensen
She'd never imagined it like this-when she thought of someone (a woman like herself)losing her mind, she'd imagined shrieks and wails, hallucinations; but at that… — Michael Cunningham
Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living. — Ann Voskamp
She knows too well what it's like to tamp down your natural inclinations, to force a smile when you feel numb....The expression of emotion does… — Christina Baker Kline

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