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• Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb.

  Simone Elkeles

  Drug, Music Is, Perfect Chemistry

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• It was too much. The comfortable people made comfortable jokes about weather and things but I sat mostly silent saying a word or so when necessary a word or so trying to hide from them the fact that I was a fool and feeling terrible And I was numb, numb again, numb again again and again, numbness and pain swelling in me.

  Charles Bukowski

  Pain, Numbness, Weather

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• Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.

  Chief Seattle

  Men, Cities, Dying

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• 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 that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Mean, Important, Gone

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• We have become terribly vulnerable, not because we suffer but because we have separated ourselves from each other. A patient once told me that he had tried to ignore his own suffering and the suffering of other people because he had wanted to be happy. Yet becoming numb to suffering will not make us happy. The part in us that feels suffering is the same as the part that feels joy.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Suffering Of Others, People, Joy

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• How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out?

  Ann Voskamp

  Dream, Loss, Joy

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.12, Zondervan

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• Suppressing your hurts is like not tending to a bullet wound. Eventually you will bleed out. Dont numb pain, express it.

  LeCrae

  Hurt, Pain, Bullets

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• Went up from my feet to my head,
  With little chills after it stealing-
  And my hands got as numb as the dead.
  A moment, and then it was over:
  The diamond blazed up in my eyes,
  And I saw in the face of my lover
  A questioning, strange surprise.
  Maybe 'twas the scent of the flowers,
  That heavy with fragrance bloomed near,
  But I didn't feel natural for hours;
  It was odd now, wasn't it, dear?
  Write soon to your fortunate Clara
  Who has carried the prize away,
  And say you'll come on when I marry;
  I think it will happen in May.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Flower, Eye, Writing

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.637, Delphi Classics

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• You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mind, Important, Moments

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• There's so many lies being told throughout the media and people just run with the lies. They're numb to it. Too many followers, not enough leaders.

  Big Boi

  Running, Lying, Media

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lecturer often makes you feel dumb at one end and numb at the other.

  Evan Esar

  Teaching, Dumb, Ends

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• Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Heart, Soul, Matter

  Albert Schweitzer (1979). “Reverence for Life”, p.125, Ardent Media

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• People drink to numb the pain and suffering. I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.

  Marilyn Manson

  Art, Pain, Thinking

  Source: archive.azcentral.com

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• I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.

  Sylvia Plath

  Fossils

  Richard M. Matovich, Sylvia Plath (1986). “A concordance to The collected poems of Sylvia Plath”, Scholarly Title

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• Numb the dark and you numb the light.

  Brené Brown

  Fear, Dark, Light

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.116, Penguin

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• I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say "Look! I have no hands!" But the people all around me say: "What are hands?

  Frank Herbert

  Hands, People, One Day

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.311, Penguin

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• 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 we are living.

  Albert Einstein

  People, Everyday, Habit

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• The truth is, I feel beyond sad. I feel empty. Numb.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Truth Is, Empty, Feels

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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 certain ecstasy, for theirs is the hunger for Paradise.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Fall, Apples, Tree

  Hilda Doolittle, Aliki Barnstone (1973). “Trilogy”, p.120, New Directions Publishing

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• He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at the cold sweating center of every drug deal. But now he'd found this warm thing, this chip of murder. Meat, some part of him said. It's the meat talking, ignore it.

  William Gibson

  Night, Numbness, Talking

  William Gibson (2000). “Neuromancer”, p.130, Penguin

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• I often think there are three primary responses to suffering - rage, intoxication, or growth. We either want revenge for our pain, or we numb ourselves with the endless array of intoxicants available to us, from drugs to overwork, or we grow in empathy. Emptiness can transform into spaciousness; lack can become an agent of social action. But I think many of us struggle to remain on that third path without backsliding into the other two. I do.

  C.E. Morgan

  Pain, Revenge, Struggle

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• 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 get used to our failures and imperfections. We become numb to the possibilities of something new

  Jonah Lehrer

  Imperfection, World, Reason Why

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• 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 to the sensation of wonder – people who closed the doors that leads us into the secret world – or who had the doors closed for them by time and neglect and decisions made in times of weakness.

  Douglas Coupland

  Thinking, Doors, People

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 human. But I was getting better, and so the pain was something I could avoid for days at a time now. The trade-off was the never-ending numbness. Between pain and nothing, I'd chosen nothing.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Pain, Thinking, Numbness

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