These numb quotes will inspire you. Numb (of a part of the body) deprived of the power of physical sensation or deprive of feeling or responsiveness.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging numb quotes, numb sayings, and numb proverbs.
Best Numb Quotes
- “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.” Dorothy Gilman
- “When you’re in survival mode, you numb yourself.” Clemantine Wamariya
- “My heart is numb. It’s not broke, it’s numb. It’s numb because of hard situations.” YG
- “You can only get hurt so much before you get numb.” Teresa Giudice
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“A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.” John Gould
- “In real life, I don’t cry too easily. I go numb.” Kay Kay Menon
- “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.” Criss Angel
- “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.” Judith Wright
- ” ‘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.” David Gilmour , Comfortably numb quotes
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“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.” Danny Rose
- “By default, most of us have taken the dare to simply survive. Exist. Get through. For the most part, we live numb to life – we’ve grown weary and apathetic and jaded… and wounded.” Ann Voskamp
- “That’s the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn’t have those things we’d just be numb.” Kathy Mattea
- “I am probably a bit numb upstairs, which is sometimes a good thing.” Alun Wyn Jones
- “When I look at a pie chart, I just go numb.” Aaron Koblin
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“If people can’t deal with their problems, they numb themselves a little bit.” Kevin Nealon
- “By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realized that I had a problem because I couldn’t write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I’d gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit.” John Newcombe
- “Creating stuff is hard. But, if that terrifies you, you will just be numb, and you better just stay at home and watch TV and do something else. Move into the woods and live with the trees.” Daniel Espinosa
- “It’s like, the more you commit, the happier the animators are; if you’re at all iffy and concerned, then it doesn’t free them up to do as much fun stuff, so you have to just go for it and, again, trust the people around you and not be seemingly guarded and numb. Throw caution to the wind a bit.” Neil Patrick Harris
- “If you have any setback in your life, like not being in the England squad was for me – any setback, like losing a family member – everyone handles it in different ways. When I first wasn’t included I was numb. I’d been the main England striker for years and years. It was really disappointing.” Michael Owen
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“I’m almost numb to misogyny at this point. It’s just everywhere.” Callie Khouri
- “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.” Malcolm Jenkins
- “I had just left Yes and had done a concert at Crystal Palace, South London, with a choir and orchestra playing my solo album ‘Journey To The Centre Of The Earth’ when I had my heart attack. That day, I hadn’t been to bed for four days. I don’t remember much. I felt very numb during the day and airy, which is the best way to describe it.” Rick Wakeman
- “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.” Douglas Coupland
- “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.” CeeLo Green
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“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.” Bhumi Pednekar
- “You’re put on this platform where you see beauty every day, and you kinda get numb to it. So then it’s like, ‘What else do you have? You really can’t hold a conversation? Next’.” Rotimi
- “‘Redistributing the wealth’ – that phrase gets used so much that you almost get numb to it.” Boots Riley
- “I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they can’t feel anymore.” John Bradshaw
- “A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.” Brene Brown
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“We use work to numb out. We can’t turn off our machines because we’re afraid we’re going to miss something.” Brene Brown
- “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.” Ricki Lake
- “I feel that I fell somewhat under that category where I was using fighting to kind of run from my own self to an extent, to kind of numb the things that I thought about myself. When I had fighting taken away, I was forced to look at myself in the mirror and say, ‘What are you without fighting?’ ” Dominick Cruz
- “A sickle-cell attack would creep up slowly in my ankles, legs, arms, back, stomach, and chest. Sometimes my lips and tongue turned numb, and I knew I was going into a crisis.” Prodigy
- “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.” Halsey
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“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.” Scott Steiner
- “The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.” Leni Riefenstahl
- “I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.” Wislawa Szymborska
- “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.” Chuck Mangione , Emotionally numb quotes
- ” ‘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.” Jerry Saltz
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“Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can’t suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.” Josh Billings
- “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.” CeeLo Green
- “There’s so many lies being told throughout the media and people just run with the lies. They’re numb to it. Too many followers, not enough leaders.” Big Boi
- “Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.” Matt Taibbi
- “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!” Jan de Bont
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“What I don’t want to become numb to is wasting those taxpayer dollars.” Jason Chaffetz
- “Because my father was an army officer, I was told to enter the military school during the war. Luckily or unluckily, one month before the entrance examination, I got polio, which made my right arm numb. It’s still numb.” Masatoshi Koshiba
- “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.” Margherita Missoni
- “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.” Steve Scalise
- “Since the beginning of establishment, poets and spoken word artists have always been both vocal supporters and critics of government. And in this age of Trump as President, alternative facts, falsehoods becoming truth at the send of a tweet, it’s vital that spoken word poetry does its job helping to keep folks ‘woke’ and not numb or shut down.” Malcolm-Jamal Warner
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“We are so beaten down by political correctness that most of us are numb to the surrender of America.” Jeanine Pirro
- “There have been moments in my life when I’ve become numb to certain aspects of myself that I found frightening. Or I’ve conformed to certain morals of society and then maybe rebelled or found a way out.” Jessie Buckley
- “I’ve been on investigations where a spirit is channeling through me, and I have extreme changes in my emotions – anger, sadness, confusion. Then I begin seeing visions that are not mine. They are theirs. There is no trace of time. My body goes stiff, numb, cold. Then, when the spirit leaves, I can barely stand and speak.” Zak Bagans
- “Learning essential stuff is as much a discipline as going to the gym or sticking to a diet, and an excellent antidote for the modern condition of being numb and dumb.” Ben Fountain
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“The military and the Marine Corps prepared me to be numb to the stress.” Lacey Evans
- “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.” Pooja Bhatt
- “I haven’t felt my toes on my foot on the right side for many years, and my fingers are numb all the time every day.” Nadya Suleman
- “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.” Caroline Flack
- “When I got to know that I will be doing ‘Dilwale,’ I was numb. I called my mother and told her, and there was a two-minute silence.” Varun Sharma
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“There is nothing more terrifying than lying in the ring and feeling that your hand has gone numb.” Wade Barrett
- “I was put in the Anda cell at the Arthur Road jail which is the most secluded cell. You have no contact with anyone and you don’t even get newspapers. I was completely numb.” Sooraj Pancholi
- “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.” Daniel Jacobs
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“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.” Charles Oliveira
- “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.” Tyson Kidd
- “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.” Bruno Sammartino
Numb of a part of the body) unable to feel anything.
