Numb Quotes - Page 4

• I love the slow, warming sensation of my body going numb when I drink.

  Patricia Gaffney

  Body, Drink, Sensations

  Patricia Gaffney (2009). “The Saving Graces: A Novel”, p.140, Harper Collins

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• He felt strangely numb. As though from a great distance, he was aware that he was being beaten. The last sensations of pain left him. He no longer felt anything, though very faintly he could hear the impact of the club upon his body. But it was no longer his body, it seemed so far away.

  Jack London

  Pain, Distance, Impact

  Jack London (2016). “The Call of the Wild and White Fang”, p.47, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• 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

  Kindness, Icy, Lasts

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• 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 the road to self-destruction. It does not affirm but places upon us greater and greater demands. It destroys the outside world until it is hard to live outside war's grip. It takes a higher and higher dose to achieve any thrill. Finally, one ingests war only to remain numb.

  Chris Hedges

  War, Like Love, Self

  Chris Hedges (2014). “War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning”, p.162, PublicAffairs

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• People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrails splattering across a screen as a sign of success. In that moment, Val thought that the real problem with games was that the player was suppossed to try everything. If there was a cave, you went in it. If there was a mysterious stranger, you talked to him. If there was a map, you followed it. But in games, you had a hundred million billion lives and Val only had this one.

  Holly Black

  Real, Player, Games

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• Staring in the darkness, trying to sleep. My body was aching with tiredness. My limbs were numb. My sightless eyes were crazed with light/ I was dying of oblivion, but it wouldn't come. I didn't think I've ever sleep again.

  Kevin Brooks

  Eye, Sleep, Thinking

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• Through fear of knowing who we really are we sidestep our own destiny, which leaves us hungry in a famine of our own making...we end up living numb, passionless lives, disconnected from our soul's true purpose. But when you have the courage to shape your life from the essence of who you are, you ignite, becoming truly alive.

  Dawna Markova

  Destiny, Essence, Knowing

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• With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, only it was pitched in minor key, with long-drawn wailings and half-sobs, and was more the pleading of life, the articulate travail of existence. It was an old song, old as the breed itself--one of the first songs of the younger world in a day when songs were sad.

  Jack London

  Song, Stars, Keys

  Rudyard Kipling, Hugh Lofting, Jack London, Kenneth Grahame, Anna Sewell (2017). “Five Classic Animal Adventures: The Jungle Book, The Story of Doctor Dolittle, The Call of the Wild, The Wind in the Willows, and Black Beauty”, p.257, Open Road Media

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• This summer-sweet night is only one minute upon one minute upon another Beautiful cacophony, sugar upon lips, dancing to exhaustion I thought of you, before this minute upon another minute upon another Until, numb, my lips fell onto the mouth of another, and I was undone. ~from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter which is a fictional book in Ballad: A gathering of faerie

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Beautiful, Summer, Sweet

  Maggie Stiefvater (2010). “Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie”, p.131, North Star Editions, Inc.

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• Because I'm not, in fact, depressed, Prozac makes me manic and numb - one of the reasons I slice my arm in the first place is that I'm coked to the gills on something utterly wrong for what I have.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Arms, Firsts, Facts

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Madness: A Bipolar Life”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That’s the trouble with being scared all the time. Eventually, people just go numb.

  Mira Grant

  People, Scared, Trouble

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• Anger, though, is too fierce a flame to last for long, and when it burned out, I was left numb and wondering.

  Jodi Picoult

  Flames, Long, Lasts

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

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• Fading, with the Night, the memory of a dead love, and the withered leaves of a blighted hope, and the sickly repinings and moody regrets that numb the best energies of the soul: and rising, broadening, rolling upward like a living flood, the manly resolve, and the dauntless will, and the heavenward gaze of faith-the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen!

  Lewis Carroll

  Memories, Regret, Night

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.367, Race Point Pub

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• The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The good gray conservative obliterating snow. Smoothing (in one white lacy euphemism after another) out all the black bleak angular unangelic nauseous ugliness of the blasted sterile world: dry buds, shrunken stone houses, dead vertical moving people all all all go under the great white beguiling wave. And come out transformed. Lose yourself in a numb dumb snow-daubed lattice of crystal and come out pure with the white virginal veneer you never had.

  Sylvia Plath

  Moving, Weather, White

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.73, Anchor

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• 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

  Reality, Hands, Waiting

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Eye, Feminism, Pits

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.60, Anchor

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• A pill to make you numb, a pill to make you dumb.

  Marilyn Manson

  Alcohol, Drug, Dumb

  Song: Coma White, Album: Mechanical Animals

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• 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

  Hurt, Heart, Blood

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• The more children see of violence, the more numb they are to the deadly consequences of violence. Now, video games like 'Mortal Kombat,' 'Killer Instinct,' and 'Doom,' the very game played obsessively by the two young men who ended so many lives in Littleton, make our children more active participants in simulated violence.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Men, Media

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.613, Best Books on

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• I think maybe I was numb to it last year.. but you know I feel it now more than ever

  Drake

  Success, Thinking, Years

  Song: Over My Dead Body, Album: Take Care, 2011

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• I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through. And when they all were seated, a service, like a drum, kept beating, beating, till I felt my mind was going numb. And then I heard them lift a box and creak across my soul with those same boots of lead again, then space began to toll, as if the heavens were a bell and being were an ear, and I, and silence, some strange race wrecked, solitary, here. Just then, a plank in reason broke, and I fell down and down and hit a world at every plunge, and finished knowing then.

  Andrew Solomon

  Knowing, Space, Race

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• At this moment I am feeling disappointed with myself and I am hurt and numb...

  Ronnie O'Sullivan

  Hurt, Feelings, Moments

  "O'Sullivan faces censure after walking out on Hendry match" by Clive Everton, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2006.

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• Thank God I never hooked on anything. I never had a monkey on my back. I just wanted to self-medicate, to numb myself through liquor. It's how I dealt with life, reality, stress, change, sadness, memories. The list goes on. I was really trying to feel nothing.

  Johnny Depp

  Memories, Stress, Sadness

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• 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

  Desire, Agents, Be You

  Jenny Holzer, Noemi Smolik (1996). “Jenny Holzer: writing”

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• Abuse manipulates and twists a child's natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can't afford to feel the full range of feelings in her body while she's being abused-pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, arousal. So she short-circuits them and goes numb. For many children, any expression of feelings, even a single tear, is cause for more severe abuse. Again, the only recourse is to shut down. Feelings go underground.

  Laura Davies

  Children, Pain, Hate

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