91 Quotes About Numbness

Numbness is not happiness.

Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain.

Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.

We don't exist unless there is someone who can see us existing, what we say has no meaning until someone can understand, while to be surrounded by friends is constantly to have our identity confirmed; their knowledge and care for us have the power to pull us from our numbness. In small comments, many of them teasing, they reveal they know our foibles and except them and so, in turn, accept that we have a place in the world.

I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness.

She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed to be.

How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?

Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores once, but tucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow.

Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone.