Numb Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• 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 have no wit, no words, no tears;
  My heart within me like a stone
  Is numb'd too much for hopes or fears;
  Look right, look left, I dwell alone;
  I lift mine eyes, but dimm'd with grief
  No everlasting hills I see;
  My life is in the falling leaf:
  O Jesus, quicken me.

  Christina Rossetti

  Jesus, Grief, Fall

  Christina Georgina Rossetti, “A Better Ressurection”

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• People think of a parasite as simply taking money, taking blood out of a host or taking money out of the economy. But in nature it's much more complicated. The parasite can't simply come in and take something. First of all, it needs to numb the host. It has an enzyme so that the host doesn't realize the parasite's there. And then the parasites have another enzyme that takes over the host's brain. It makes the host imagine that the parasite is part of its own body, actually part of itself and hence to be protected. That’s basically what Wall Street has done.

  Michael Hudson

  Wall, Thinking, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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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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• 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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• In a society that almost demands life at double time, speed and addictions numb us to our own experience. In such a society, it is almost impossible to settle into our bodies or stay connected with our hearts, let alone connect with one another or the earth where we live.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Addiction, Body

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.24, Random House

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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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• Elation and pain are experiences that make you realize youre alive. Thank God you feel them; otherwise youd be numb.

  Darren Hayes

  Pain, Thank God, Alive

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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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• 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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• In truth I never really liked any of the heavy drugs, because normally my energy is up when I'm performing, and that's about it. Cocaine is nothing new. It's the pressure, I think. People use it to relieve that, and for me it is about getting numb and forgetting. I have a reverse metabolic reaction to the stuff.

  Robin Williams

  Thinking, People, Drug

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• Young Baby Boomers were forced to play duck-and-cover in school, in hopes that a desk would protect them from an atomic explosion. It was all bullshit, and they knew it. They were questioning the entire adult establishment, and that was the root cause of juvenile delinquency. It was also the root cause of EC's success; kids were looking for ways to numb themselves to this horror that they felt.

  Al Feldstein

  Baby, School, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• You live your life like it’s a rare treasure to be savored. You take pleasure from the simplest of things and you never take them for granted. I saw the joy on your face and the life in your eyes when you cradled the permits to your chest. I’ve never seen anything lovelier. I actually thought you would cry just from the joy of touching them. I’ve been numb all my life, Megeara, but you…you feel on a level that I can’t even imagine, and for a little while I wanted to feel that, too. (Arik)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Eye, Joy, Live Your Life

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• 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

  Feelings, Body, Moments

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• Something inside me shuts down and I'm too numb to feel anything. It's like watching complete strangers in another Hunger Games. But I do notice they omit the part where I covered her in flowers. Right. Because even that smacks of rebellion.

  Suzanne Collins

  Flower, Games, Down And

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.25, Scholastic Inc.

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• What I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is right that you feel it all in any moment. And it is right that you see it through--that you are amazed, then curious, then belligerent, then heartbroken, then numb. You have the right to all of it.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Heartbroken, Needs, Moments

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• 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

  Addiction, Alcohol, Drug

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• There are many people who live in what I call 'No-man's Land,' a place where you're not really happy, but you're not unhappy enough to do anything about it. That's a dangerous place. It's a place where people numb themselves to their dreams. It's where they dismiss hope and accept what's in front of them instead of driving toward what they really want in life.

  Tony Robbins

  Dream, Men, Land

  "Tony Robbins: Unleashing the Power". www.success.com. December 1, 2008.

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• People are beginning to become disturbingly comfortable with a kind of official hypocrisy. Bizarrely, for instance, we've become numb to the idea that rights aren't absolute but are enjoyed on a kind of sliding scale.

  Matt Taibbi

  Ideas, Rights, Hypocrisy

  Matt Taibbi (2014). “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap”, p.11, Spiegel & Grau

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• What does it mean when your heart's already numb? You're a professional.

  The Weeknd

  Heart, Mean, Doe

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• Think about every time you've seen someone being objectified, abused, enslaved. We see it constantly on the TV, in magazines, on the Internet. We've become numb, so we do nothing. The accumulation of passivity might make reading about that exploitation uncomfortable. And sometimes when I'm writing, I think of it like this: "People seem to like garbage, so here is what garbage smells like..."

  Ottessa Moshfegh

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  "Go Forth (Vol. 36)". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. August 25, 2015.

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• Numb is the new deep.

  John Mayer

  Reality

  Song: New Deep, Album: Heavier Things

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