Numb Quotes

• 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 them.

  Judith Wright

  Feelings, Habit, Avoiding

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• If people can't deal with their problems, they numb themselves a little bit.

  Kevin Nealon

  People, Littles, Problem

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• 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

  Life, Men, Years

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• 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 didn't have those things we'd just be numb.

  Kathy Mattea

  Pain, Joy, Earth

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• When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude, Motivation, Inspiration

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• By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I'd gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit.

  John Newcombe

  Writing, Feet, Gone

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• 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 knew that this alone must be my life and my world.

  Leni Riefenstahl

  World, Loud, Applause

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• 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 counted, the fallen angels sit.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Angel, Hands, Waiting

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• There's a big difference between being numb to something and being immune to it.

  Michael Monroe

  Differences, Bigs, Immune

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• Numb is the new deep, done with the old me, and talk is the same cheap it's been.

  John Mayer

  Done

  Song: New Deep, Album: Heavier Things

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• The nature of the enemy's warfare in your life is to cause you to become discouraged and to cast away your confidence. Not that you would necessarily discard your salvation, but you could give up your hope of God's deliverance. The enemy wants to numb you into a coping kind of Christianity that has given up hope of seeing God's resurrection power.

  Bob Sorge

  Giving Up, Enemy, Want

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• You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder, who felt their emotions floating away and just didn't care. I guess that's what's scariest: not caring about the loss.

  Douglas Coupland

  Caring, Loss, Thinking

  Douglas Coupland (2010). “Player One”, p.99, Random House

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• The best things arrive on time.

  Dorothy Gilman

  Best Things

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• Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.

  Horace

  Fall, Grief, Passion

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.364, Delphi Classics

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• A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.

  John Gould

  Benefits, Lectures, Ends

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• If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.

  Dorothy Gilman

  Waiting, Too Late, All The Best

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• Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Motivational, Peace, Wall

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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 acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible.

  Susan Sontag

  Weakness, Different, Needs

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.98, Macmillan

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• 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 out my disbelief with uninspired hands, my eyes shut, my emotions dulled, my spirit numb. In times like these I am in desperate need of truth to come to me like a blinding light, like a splinter in my soul, reminding me of the brevity of my time here on earth.

  Jon Foreman

  Eye, Light, Times Like These

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• When you numb your pain you also numb your joy.

  Brené Brown

  Pain, Joy

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• 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 be cold and numb.

  Sherman Alexie

  Cold, Cry

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “Flight: A Novel”, p.142, Open Road Media

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• I watch the confusion of friends all numb with love moving like stray dogs to the anthem of night long conversations of pulsing rhythms and random voltage voices in spite of themselves graceful as these raindrops creeping spermlike across the car window.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Friendship, Dog, Moving

  Song: You Pay Your Money and You Take Your Chance, Album: Inner City Front

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• 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. It's one of the dumbest things you can do, because all you're doing is postponing the inevitable. Someday you'll have to look all those things in the eye rather than try to numb the pain.

  Johnny Depp

  Pain, Eye, Alcohol

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• Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape.

  Sylvia Plath

  Snow, Cadavers, Landscape

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.122, Hamilton Books

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• Sometimes sadness is appropriate. Not something to run from, not something to numb...just something to feel.

  Marianne Williamson

  Running, Sadness, Sometimes

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jul 24, 2011

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