Top 35 Numb Quotes

Anti-depressants helped me get up in the morning and stopped me from being sad, but what they also do is stop you from being happy. So I was just in this numb state. I stopped laughing at jokes, and that’s just not me.

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.

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.

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.

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.

‘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.

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.

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.

‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’ and ‘Wish You Were Here’ are standout tracks. ‘Comfortably Numb’ is another one. ‘High Hopes’ from ‘The Division Bell’ is one of my favorite all-time Pink Floyd tracks. ‘The Great Gig in the Sky,’ ‘Echoes,’ there’s lot of them.

We’re surrounded by violence, and we see so much of it on TV, especially the news programs. We almost become numb. And that forces filmmakers to try to outdo themselves… They say, ‘Look what I can do,’ and it becomes like a showoff thing. To me, that’s ridiculous. Filmmaking isn’t a contest!

I injured my neck in training, but did physical therapy and thought everything was fine, but when I fell against the cage everything went numb, I couldn’t feel my body.

The military and the Marine Corps prepared me to be numb to the stress.

In real life, I don’t cry too easily. I go numb.

I had such severe nerve damage that I didn’t get the nerves all the way back. My pinky toe on my left foot is still numb, and I feel it when I’m in bed at night or when I’m by myself. That pins-and-needles feeling reminds me that life is precious, and don’t take for granted what you have.

If people can’t deal with their problems, they numb themselves a little bit.

We use work to numb out. We can’t turn off our machines because we’re afraid we’re going to miss something.

When I broke my neck, I was told that I came within a millimeter of dying or being paralyzed from the neck down. When it happened, I was numb on one side. In spite of how serious they were telling me it was, I never took it seriously. I kept saying it’s going to be OK, I trained too hard to get hurt. Which is silly.

Sometimes, we get numb to the fact that people get sent away. We don’t see where they are; we say they are ‘doing time,’ and you really don’t know what that is.

Just sitting in a steam room, you can’t breathe. When you’re doing Hindu squats in one and you get past 100, your whole body feels numb and you keep going. You start to find your limits and push your body past those limits, making new ones.

‘Redistributing the wealth’ – that phrase gets used so much that you almost get numb to it.

A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.

What I don’t want to become numb to is wasting those taxpayer dollars.

A sensitive person is seldom happy with the world the way it is. And since you cannot change it, you think, ‘Might as well numb the anguish.’ If you’re using something to escape reality, then it’s something you need to address.

There is nothing more terrifying than lying in the ring and feeling that your hand has gone numb.

I knew I was shot. Didn’t know how bad it was. You know, in a weird way, your body kind of goes numb. You know, as bad as the wounds were – and obviously, I know now how severe it was – at the time, I guess my body had been shutting down a lot of the real pain.

I remember the first time I held a rifle – the metal was so cold, and it’s so heavy. I also didn’t know the amount of pressure I had to use. My first finger went numb for a week.

I’m numb to it now. If I’m racially abused out there, I’m abused. Nothing is going to change. I just get on with it. It shouldn’t be like that but it is.

When I look at a pie chart, I just go numb.

When you’re in survival mode, you numb yourself.

You travel around the world, once you travel around a few times, you’re kind of numb to the fact of what you’ve accomplished until years later.

You numb yourself so you’re not terrified when you’re on TV at 7 o’clock in the morning with Justin Bieber, who you just met a couple of days before, having to perform in front of millions of people.

I bought a place in Milan, but Missoni headquarters are out in the country, in Sumirago. My whole family eats out of the same vegetable garden; my mother raises chickens. I love the city, but if you’re always bombarded with stimulation, you get numb to it. I need to get bored to create.

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.

We are so beaten down by political correctness that most of us are numb to the surrender of America.

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.