Best Numbing Quotes
51 Numbing quotes by 46 unique authors
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Faith and feelings are the warm marrow of evil. Unlike reason, faith and feelings provide no boundary to limit any delusion, any whim. They are…
— Terry Goodkind
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Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human tale, can make…
— Jane Yolen
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I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The numbing lists of things you were supposed to have as an American to make you happy, which ultimately, of course, don't. Those aren't the…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short…
— Hermann Hesse
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Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and…
— D. H. Lawrence
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The numbing mind-ream of knowing you're alone not because people won't accept you but because you find so little worth accepting. An imposed solitude is…
— Jhonen Vasquez
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What was the difference between love and the agony of waiting? Like love, the agony of waiting began in the muscles and somewhere around the…
— Orhan Pamuk
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Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women.…
— Naomi Wolf
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He: What’s the matter with you? Me: Nothing. Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly numbing my soul. Caught by nothing, saying nothing, nothingness…
— Jeanette Winterson
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In the end it was Shadowhunting they had bonded over—a shared love of sharp-edged weapons, gleaming seraph blades, the painful pleasure of burning Marks, the…
— Cassandra Clare
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I believe that owning our worthiness is the act of acknowledging that we are sacred. Perhaps embracing vulnerability and overcoming numbing is ultimately about the…
— Brené Brown
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Spirituality emerged as a fundamental guidepost in Wholeheartedness. Not religiosity but the deeply held belief that we are inextricably connected to one another by a…
— Brené Brown
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Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable. And…
— Joanna Macy
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For thousands and thousands of American kids, libraries are the only safe place they can find to study, a haven free from the dangers of…
— Scott Turow
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In the 500-channel universe, which may, of course, contain many more channels than 500, the fun never stops - fun at such a fever pitch…
— Tom Shales
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Numbing is any activity that you use to desensitize your feelings so that you dont experience vulnerability or hurt. But by numbing yourself to vulnerability,…
— Melchor Lim
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People think they know you. They think they know how youre handling a situation. But the truth is, no one knows. No one knows what…
— Jerhia
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Someone will walk into your life, Leave a footprint on your heart, Turn it into a mudroom cluttered With encrusted boots, children's mittens, Scratchy scarves…
— Patiencebabe
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We just did what we'd done when we were an act in the '60s. But I found it impossible to hold a dialogue with 500,000…
— Paul Simon
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Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. (Dumbledore)
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I can literally just sit and not do anything for hours and hours and hours and if there is something completely mind-numbing to do, like…
— Keira Knightley
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Being on a film set, it's mind-numbing. It's like torture.
— Hugh Grant
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Dreamland TMS Therapy! Last night! The DJ saved my life, from the boring! (TMS) Therapy, Baby! DJs electrical-magnetic stimulation keeps the love flowing. Bored, of…
— Javaz
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