Numb is unable to think, feel, or react normally because of something that shocks or upsets you. Profoundly inspirational numb quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.
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Famous Numb Quotes
You’re kind of numb after 50 shots to the head. Jim Harbaugh
As technology has advanced, people tend to get a little numb to the risk, taking more risk than they should. David George
I think I’ve become numb to that over the last 15 years, Jeff Ament
I don’t remember anything about that one, … But I do remember the day Joe Jones with the Cleveland Browns picked me up and slammed me down on my head. Man, that hurt. It was the scariest injury I ever had. My body was numb for 24 hours. Terry Bradshaw
I just saw Steve last winter when his son was pitching against my son. Everything was looking up for him and he looked great. It makes you numb when you hear about a situation like this. He had a roller-coaster ride. Mike Scioscia
I think of it as ‘pretend freedom.’ It was a way to trick my mind into not feeling so pressured. I felt like I had become numb to that process. Matthew Sweet
We talk about the tasks of grief. Emotionally, we have to acknowledge the loss. The second task is to experience the pain. What happens when you are going through a trial, you are still in the pain. Hearing the graphic testimony is like taking a razor blade and slitting open a scar. Initially, with a shocking death like that, you go numb right away, and a year later, you hear the details, you are more aware. Eileen Schmidt
My first reaction was pure shock. I was numb and could not believe that it was happening. Ken Bowersox
I learned how to stop crying. I learned how to hide inside of myself. I learned how to be somebody else. I learned how to be cold and numb. Sherman Alexie
Already Roland feels his limbs starting to go numb. He swallows hard. I hate this. I hate you. I hate all of you. I understand. Neal Shusterman
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
How many people are trapped in their everyday habits: part numb, part frightened, part indifferent? To have a better life we must keep choosing how we are living. Albert Einstein
Everybody is kind of numb right now. It’s a complete shock. Jim Nelson
Amazing Numb Quotes
Some people probably are becoming numb to these tragedies. What we call ‘compassion fatigue’ may be setting in. Richard Stearns
The best things arrive on time. Dorothy Gilman
I fear that a life of death has made me numb to both. Seth Grahame-Smith
It’s really nerve-wracking. You’re just waiting, watching your teammate trying to beat the person, trying to keep ahead. You’re waiting for your turn and you get nervous, go numb until it’s your turn and you dive in the water. Jessica Moore
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
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
I’m kinda of numb right now. I feel excited. I want to thank everyone that helped me. There were numerous people that helped me that I can’t begin to recall their names. And I want to thank my opponent for running a nice, clean race. Judy Green
It was my choice. I wanted to be able to pitch. They said they could give you shots to numb it and you’ll be able to pitch and I said OK. The hand is fine, I still have five fingers, I just don’t think about it. Julian Tavarez
I’m a little bit numb right now. We were jumping up and down earlier. Mark Brewer
When the time came to begin I was so completely terrified that my legs turned numb Minnie Driver
I had gotten back from a skiing trip and I was numb on one side of my body, I was going to a sports medicine doctor and he said there’s nothing that makes you numb all that way on one side and so he sent me to neurologist and immediately did a MRI. Bob Gregory
Fee-fi-fo-fum – Now I’m borrowed. Now I’m numb. Anne Sexton
That I would be loved even when I numb myself. That I would be good even when I am overwhelmed. That I would be loved even when I was fuming. That I would be good even if I was clingy. Alanis Morissette
I’ve had a pretty numb feeling ever since what happened. I guess because I’m not completely happy with the results I had, and that’s why I’m continuing through 2010. Chad Hedrick
When you numb your pain you also numb your joy. Brene Brown
He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness. Thomas Harris
Top Numb Quotes
Numb is the new deep, done with the old me, and talk is the same cheap it’s been. John Mayer
I do this to make myself a little numb to the effect of a warm body hitting 27-degree water. It’s an attempt to lower the core temperature of my body. Mark Cohen
You can lose yourself in pleasure, ’til your body’s going numb, but will it ever be enough. Meat Loaf
The truth is, I feel beyond sad. I feel empty. Numb. Elizabeth Scott
I always want to laugh at the sad stuff. You don’t need to laugh at the other stuff. I’m not numb to these things. I still go into really dark periods about Sept. 11. I think it’s kind of like bullies. Bullies are just scared and thin-skinned, so they have to become bullies as a kind of survival tactic. I think comics are that way, too. Sarah Silverman
I think we’re all a little numb right now. We need to pinch ourselves. Marty Simmons
We become so numb to what we’re saying. Macklemore
When I look at a pie chart, I just go numb. Aaron Koblin
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
A lecturer often makes you feel dumb at one end and numb at the other. Evan Esar
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
With that, I sort of became numb to my surroundings and soon was dealing with all this corruption around me, Tommy Burns
It went from horror to excitement to a numb feeling. Rob Edelblute
We’re not numb to it. We just have no control over it. What are you going to do? In New York, it’s like this every day, right? Tyler Walker
I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they cant feel anymore. John Bradshaw
I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I’m here. Sylvia Plath
It went numb right away, and I kind of had it in my mind that it might be broken. Todd White
He’s come downstairs and I pivoted a little bit too much and he came around the back and he smashed me that hard on the spine that I have broken two vertebrae and I just felt my whole bottom go completely numb straight away. Danny Green
We are all numb right now. I’m overwhelmed but it’s not about us, it’s about the kids. Tracey Anders
We are so numb we don’t even know what a direct experience is. We have an experience, then we think about it and we think the thinking about it is the experience. Stephen Levine
Consumers are numb to these high prices. Some of this is what the market will bear. Part of the problem with higher prices is we set a new benchmark in our mind and $3 is the new record. Sean Comey
Just a sprain, that’s all I know right now. It just got numb there for a little bit. Aubrey Huff
I got the wind knocked out of me badly so it took about half way through before I got my wind back, and I fell on my leg so it kind of went numb on me. But it was enough. That’s what today is about. Evan Lysacek
Some of my teeth are numb and there are still parts of my face that are numb. I’ve never had pain like this … I don’t think anyone knows how it feels to just have a group of kids beat you. Christi Nardozzi
I felt absolutely nothing, nothing, nothing. I just am still so numb that seeing him didn’t make me feel anything. Janet Pelasara
I’ve got sort of a numb feeling and a good deal of anxiety over what might happen. Daniel Cohen
I’m so numb I don’t know what to say. Trina Graham
A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other. John Gould
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
I got to see him, he looked very peaceful. I guess when he met his maker, he decided he didn’t want to come back. I’ve been talking to his family, and I’m just numb right now. Ron Washington
Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb. Simone Elkeles
We’ve been waiting so long I’m just kind of numb at this point. The excitement will come when the data starts flowing, in May, and we see the Earth like we’ve never seen it before. Graeme Stephens
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 just realised I’m the adult and I have to be strong. I didn’t want to plod along in a numb state, I needed to be totally aware of what’s going on, otherwise it wouldn’t be fair. Christine Hall
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
When I get asked that question, I’m just a bit numb to it really, … All I can say is how I feel … I don’t know what’s going to happen. Andre Agassi
The overabundance of scripted programming on broadcast and cable networks has made audiences mostly numb to it. Ted Harbert
Self-acceptance comes from meeting life’s challenges vigorously. Don’t numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory. Donald Walters
The knee that I hurt is more flexible than my left knee. It’s still kind of numb on the outside, but other than that I have full range of motion. Brennan Coakley
Over the years, Mark’s colleagues had grown numb to his warnings of the swamped-bowl scenario. But that afternoon his voice and his pallor made me listen. Jim Amoss
