Romesh Gunesekera

It seems to me that we live in dangerous times all over the world: we have the technology to remember everything but a desire to forget the troubling and to seek the safety of numbness. Fiction can do something about that.

Sri Lankan Author

Caroline Flack

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.

English Celebrity

Scott Steiner

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.

American Wrestler

Josh Billings

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

American Comedian

Zawe Ashton

My real life memory of leaving Uni is an overwhelming excitement to be going home but also a weird numbness.

English Actress

Brene Brown

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

American Author

J. K. Simmons

There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.

American Actor

My heart is numb. It's not broke, it's numb. It's numb because of hard situations.

American Musician

Teresa Giudice

You can only get hurt so much before you get numb.

American Celebrity

Kay Kay Menon

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

Indian Actor

Use 'numb' to describe losing the sense of touch, often from cold or staying still too long.

Physical Sensation Loss

'Numb' usually means the loss of feeling is not permanent, often expected to return.

Temporary Condition

Sometimes 'numb' is used in a metaphorical sense to describe lack of activity or dullness.

Metaphorical Use

Use 'numb' when emotions are too strong to process, like after a sudden loss.

Emotional Overwhelm

'Numb' can express how people might not react at all when they are in shock.

Shock Response

Someone may be described as 'numb' when they don't show feelings they're expected to have.

No Immediate Emotion

'Numb' as a verb is often used to mean making a body part insensitive on purpose, like with medication.

Intentional Desensitizing

People sometimes numb their emotions to cope with hard situations.

Coping Mechanism

Be cautious with 'numb' use. Repeatedly numbing emotions or sensations might hide important alerts.

Overuse Risk

 Saving the lives of billions, eradicating disease, feeding the hungry, teaching kids to read? Boring. At the same time, the most common response I have received from readers is gratitude, gratitude for changing their view of the world from a numb and helpless fatalism to something more constructive,

Is the world getting...

 waiting for the doctor to call back; getting laid off; laying off people. This is the world we live in. We live in a vulnerable world. And one of the ways we deal with it is we numb vulnerability. And I think there's evidence -- and it's not the only reason this evidence exists,

The power of vulnerabilit...

 doctor to call back getting laid off laying off people this is the world we live in we live in a vulnerable world and one of the ways we deal with it is we numb vulnerability and I think there's evidence it's not the only reason this evidence exists but I think

 I remember what you said to me. I am thinking of your love for me. I am torn by your love for me. Pain and more pain -- where are you going with my love? I am told you will go from here. I am told you will leave me here. My body is numb with grief.

The brain in love PIPE...

 throughout my body and the feeling of numbness overtook my lower half and as my friends ran over after I screamed out of shock I finally got to ask them where was my snowboard my friends looked at me and collectively said it's on your feet

Becoming the CEO of...

 trying to raise three children, and the creditors were knocking. We felt, as a family, financially and emotionally ravaged. And I began to spiral down, isolated, fast. I started to use food to numb my pain. Binging and purging.

The gift and power of...

 Dave he forgot about the window a numb bum is no fun it's time mr. waffles found somewhere warmer to sit mr. waffles didn't figure on the importance of friction when attempting to lift off although he was hoping to jump up by

Cats vs. Gravity PIPE...

 trying to convince me I had a book in me about my life as a swimmer. You know, like a memoir. The whole time he was talking to me, I sat there smiling and nodding like a numb idiot, with my arms crossed over my chest,

The beauty of being a...

 you go down there you sort of feel it numb your face and sting your face it takes your breath away but also the knowledge there is this immense plate that goes on forever and ever and ever of

Filming Antarctica's...

 "I'm fine with my crooked smile and with my numbness in my face. I'll be okay. Please don't worry." She was a solace for us, and she consoled us. Dear brothers and sisters,