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The truth is, I feel beyond sad. I feel empty. Numb. -- Elizabeth Scott
If people can't deal with their problems, they numb themselves a little bit. -- Kevin Nealon
A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other. -- John Gould
Numb is the new deep, done with the old me, and talk is the same cheap it's been. -- John Mayer
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
Numb is the new deep. -- John Mayer
Numb the dark and you numb the light. -- Brene Brown
Numb the dark and you numb the light. -- Brene Brown
Sometimes sadness is appropriate. Not something to run from, not something to numb...just something to feel. -- Marianne Williamson
Safety is the most unsafe spiritual path you can take. Safety keeps you numb and dead. People are caught by surprise when it is time to die. They have allowed themselves to live so little. -- Stephen Levine
I'm almost numb to misogyny at this point. It's just everywhere. -- Callie Khouri
When I look at a pie chart, I just go numb. -- Aaron Koblin
Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb. -- Simone Elkeles
When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness. -- Brene Brown
You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions. -- Brene Brown
We use work to numb out. We can't turn off our machines because we're afraid we're going to miss something. -- Brene Brown
I will cling to the rope God has thrown me in Jesus Christ, even when my numb hands can no longer feel it. -- Sophie Scholl
I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they can't feel anymore. -- John Bradshaw
The fact that you can love something that you've lost is all the incentive you need to love again, as opposed to becoming comfortably numb. -- CeeLo Green
Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime. -- Matt Taibbi
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
The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive. -- Jeanette Winterson
The hiatus you spoke about happened in 1998. I was somewhat numb from being out on the road every night. I had to stop because I was emotionally and physically drained. -- Chuck Mangione
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
By default, most of us have taken the dare to simply survive. Exist. Get through. For the most part, we live numb to life - we've grown weary and apathetic and jaded... and wounded. -- Ann Voskamp
I've never formally trained for pain management, but I have a good understanding of how to conquer it. I just analyze the pain, feel it in the moment, and then mentally become numb to it. -- Criss Angel
Normal birth to me should not be numb from the waist down and waiting for the doctor to tell you to push. There's a reason we feel it. There's a reason we need to feel it. -- Ricki Lake
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 or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it. -- Douglas Coupland
Struggling and suffering are the essence of a life worth living. If you're not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you're not demanding more from yourself - expanding and learning as you go - you're choosing a numb existence. You're denying yourself an extraordinary trip. -- Dean Karnazes
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic. -- Diane Setterfield
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
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
Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it'll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters, it may be the whitest, straightest, most conservative show seen in a New York museum since psychedelia was new. -- Jerry Saltz
If you have any setback in your life, like not being in the England squad was for me - any setback, like losing a family member - everyone handles it in different ways. When I first wasn't included I was numb. I'd been the main England striker for years and years. It was really disappointing. -- Michael Owen
It's like, the more you commit, the happier the animators are; if you're at all iffy and concerned, then it doesn't free them up to do as much fun stuff, so you have to just go for it and, again, trust the people around you and not be seemingly guarded and numb. Throw caution to the wind a bit. -- Neil Patrick Harris
A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick. -- Brene Brown
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
I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out. To learn and think: to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love. -- Sylvia Plath
I had just left Yes and had done a concert at Crystal Palace, South London, with a choir and orchestra playing my solo album 'Journey To The Centre Of The Earth' when I had my heart attack. That day, I hadn't been to bed for four days. I don't remember much. I felt very numb during the day and airy, which is the best way to describe it. -- Rick Wakeman
Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb. -- Anne Sexton
We become so numb to what we're saying. -- Macklemore
You're kind of numb after 50 shots to the head. -- Jim Harbaugh
He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness. -- Thomas Harris
The part of her that should have been disgusted was numb. -- Fuyumi Ono
A pill to make you numb, a pill to make you dumb. -- Marilyn Manson
I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here. -- Sylvia Plath
What does it mean when your heart's already numb? You're a professional. -- The Weeknd
The list of lifesavers left him numb, clueless - the action, indifferent. -- Noorilhuda
I fear that a life of death has made me numb to both. -- Seth Grahame-Smith
You can't fix stupid, but you can numb it was a 2 by 4.--T-SHIRT -- Darynda Jones
I'm drinking champagne, got the head phones up high, can't numb you out. -- Joni Mitchell
That's the trouble with being scared all the time. Eventually, people just go numb. -- Mira Grant
There's a big difference between being numb to something and being immune to it. -- Michael Monroe
When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness. -- Brene Brown
Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters. -- Albert Schweitzer
I love the slow, warming sensation of my body going numb when I drink. -- Patricia Gaffney
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A lecturer often makes you feel dumb at one end and numb at the other. -- Evan Esar
America has become numb to violence because it just drowns in it, day in and day out. -- Janet Reno
You can lose yourself in pleasure, 'til your body's going numb, but will it ever be enough. -- Meat Loaf
We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions. -- Brene Brown
I just let the pain take over, allowing it to numb the pain of being left behind. -- Jessica Sorensen
Words fail to describewhat i feel anymore.Let me be numb for a while,let me be sore. -- Anjum Choudhary
When I first started to write poetry, I used to feel as if my tongue would go numb. -- Kim Hyesoon
I grow numb; I grow stiff. How shall I break up this numbness which discredits my sympathetic heart? -- Virginia Woolf
My philosophy on getting knocked out is that it renders you unconscious and numb, so why worry about it. -- Forrest Griffin
Dishonoring what we feel is an epidemic that has us self-medicating as a culture and trying to numb ourselves. -- Abiola Abrams
Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair. -- Dean Koontz
I've drank more beer and pissed more blood and banged more women than all you numb nuts put together! -- Dolph Lundgren
All addictions have one thing in common - they numb you out to what is happening in the moment. -- Barbara de Angelis
Some scars don't hurt. Some scars are numb. Some scars rid you of the capacity to feel anything ever again. -- Joyce Rachelle
Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench. -- Chief Seattle
Elation and pain are experiences that make you realize youre alive. Thank God you feel them; otherwise youd be numb. -- Darren Hayes
I think maybe I was numb to it last year.. but you know I feel it now more than ever -- Drake
What we humans think we know is nothing compared to what we need to believe to numb the fear and pain. -- Jo Nesbo
When things don't go the way you want them to, sometimes instead of feeling disappointment or heartache, you just become numb. -- April Mae Monterrosa
Suppressing your hurts is like not tending to a bullet wound. Eventually you will bleed out. Dont numb pain, express it. -- lecrae
Anger, though, is too fierce a flame to last for long, and when it burned out, I was left numb and wondering. -- Jodi Picoult
It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it. -- Zainab Salbi
Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape. -- Sylvia Plath
She came and took away all his miseries, his sorrows !!Then SHewent and left him restlessly numb. He was herpainkiller. SHe, his anesthetic. -- Douglas Self
Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going. -- Yasmin Mogahed
I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they cant feel anymore. -- John Bradshaw
I felt, by turns, numb, hot with a monstrous embarrassment, and sick as though I'd eaten splinters of glass and was slowly shredding inside. -- Vanora Bennett
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
People are sort of numb to watching violence, but sexual activity is still as strong as it ever was in terms of generating response. -- Steven Soderbergh
We have become dangerously comfortable- believers ooze with wealth and let their addictions to comfort and security numb the radical urgency of the gospel. -- Francis Chan
The land is numb. It stands beneath the feet, and one may come Walking securely, till the sea extends Its limber margin, and precision ends. -- Yvor Winters
Already Roland feels his limbs starting to go numb. He swallows hard. "I hate this. I hate you. I hate all of you." "I understand. -- Neal Shusterman
I am nothing but novocaine. I am numb, a world of nothing, all feeling and emotion gone forever. I am a whisper that never was." -- Tahereh Mafi
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
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
My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip, my toes to numb to step, wait only for my boot heels to be wandering. -- Bob Dylan
Embarrassment is the worst! It's the feeling of having your entire body go numb and not knowning what to do with yourself for that one moment -- Miley Cyrus
How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you kill the agent of desire. -- Jenny Holzer
It's the music that pulls me in and makes me forget about my problems at home. Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb. -- Simone Elkeles
The fact that you can love something that's lost is all of the incentive that you'll ever need to love again as opposed to becoming comfortably numb. -- CeeLo Green
There's this parallel, perhaps less conscious desire, which is to numb myself to the world. To deal with the world tomorrow. Living is difficult. Dying is difficult. -- Jowita Bydlowska
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
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 or her own feelings. -- David Emerald Womeldorff
A time of darkness, despair, disillusion-so black only the inferno of the human mind can be-symbolic death, and numb shock-then the painful agony of slow rebirth and psychic regeneration -- Sylvia Plath
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
My personal feeling is that audiences are crying out for stories they can invest in and feel. I see a lot of big movies that leave me feeling rather numb. -- Emily Blunt
A pill to make you numb A pill to make you dumb A pill to make you anybody else But all the drugs in this world Won't save her from herself. -- Marilyn Manson
Kindness was the last thing she needed. She had to stay in the icy place, the numb place, and their warmth threatened to melt her just when she needed the cold. -- Janet Fitch
We are so numb we don't even know what a direct experience is. We have an experience, then we think about it and we think the thinking about it is the experience. -- Stephen Levine
But while ignorance can make you insensitive, familiarity can also numb. Entering the second half-century of an information age, our cumulative knowledge has changed the level of what appalls, what stuns, what shocks. -- Anna Quindlen
Sleep is still difficult I sleep for three or four hours a day. Usually sometime in the afternoon. I walk in the cold, keep myself numb. I cry less, and less." (James Frey, pg.88) -- James Frey
To know objects only through dissecting and cataloguing them is to miss their full reality. It is to fall asleep amidst the mystery and to become numb to the wonder of this great Earth. -- John Daido Loori
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
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
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

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