91 Quotes About Numbness

She wasn’t sure if it was strength or numbness… But either way… She was going to get up and get through this.

There wasn't any anger involved (I think). I mean, what was I supposed to be angry with? What I was feeling was a fundamental numbness. The numbness your heart automatically activates to lessen the awful pain when you want somebody desperately and they reject you. A kind of emotional morphine.

I don't sleep. I just let my body lie itself into numbness and lie to myself that I can't hear, see, or feel anything.

She now felt an incessant and universal numbness.

When war is waged against pain, sometimes innocent bystanders are killed including love and passion.

We conform to pain until we don't notice it anymore; it's what you call — numb — and it tragically blots out our pleasure too.

Without love everything can be nothing. Does that make me want to love? No. For me, Ignorance is still better than martyrdom.

Depression means self-loathing, self-disgust, and the kind of emotional numbness that feels like psychic death.

For us, fear comes where terror comes to others because we are anesthetized to the guns constantly pointed at us. And the terror we have known is something few Westerners ever will. Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme. [...] Our sadness can make the stones weep. And the way we love is no exception.