Numb Quotes

263 Numb quotes by 208 unique authors

A Rescuer isn't always a person. Addictions to alcohol or drugs, sexual addiction, workaholism-all the ways we numb out-can rescue the Victim from feeling his… — David Emerald Womeldorff
In a society that almost demands life at double time, speed and addictions numb us to our own experience. In such a society, it is… — Jack Kornfield
In the beginning war looks and feels like love. But unlike love it gives nothing in return but an ever-deepening dependence, like all narcotics, on… — Chris Hedges
The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I… — Leni Riefenstahl
Elation and pain are experiences that make you realize youre alive. Thank God you feel them; otherwise youd be numb. — Darren Hayes
There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good… — Douglas Coupland
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb. — Josh Billings
I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell, a mimicking nothingness. — Sylvia Plath
There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn't be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something… — Christopher Hitchens
I was numb and I had lots of swollen lymph nodes, my heart was hurting and I had blood clots in my arm and leg. — Corey Haim
I yearn to live and love and burn, and yet so much of my time is spent faking and forgetting, faking and forgetting I carry… — Jon Foreman
There are many people who live in what I call 'No-man's Land,' a place where you're not really happy, but you're not unhappy enough to… — Tony Robbins
When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness. — BrenÃ© Brown
You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I got some real rough dental work done not long ago, and my mouth's still numb right here [points to the left side of his… — Roy Jones Jr.
I wanted it in the way you sometimes want to jump into very cold water, even though you know it won't feel good. I wanted… — Brenna Yovanoff
A bad dream.To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.A bad dream.I… — Sylvia Plath
I was faced with a choice: to deny my addiction and embrace that 'comfortably numb' but 'magicless' existence, or accept the burden of insight, take… — Roger Waters
Now I know I'll never be numb again. A mother is condemned to feel everything forever. And I'm finally afraid, condemned to fear everything forever.… — Kristin Hersh
How many people are trapped in their everyday habits: part numb, part frightened, part indifferent? To have a better life we must keep choosing how… — Albert Einstein

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