Numbing Quotations

People are constantly not feeling, but numbing themselves, either through medication or playing on their phones. If you start feeling bad, it's like, 'Distract! Distract! Put on Storage Wars!' And I know because I'm guilty of it, too.

Life in New York is one of succumbing to a tidal wave of control and direction, of numbing oneself to emotion.

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. (Dumbledore)

Our culture is about distraction, numbing oneself. There is no self-reflection, no sitting still. It's absolutely exhausting.

The numbing lists of things you were supposed to have as an American to make you happy, which ultimately, of course, don't. Those aren't the things that make you happy.

With numbing regularity, good people were seen to knuckle under the demands of authority and perform actions that were callous and severe,

I know we're going to have a big challenge to do better than what we did last year, but I feel we have the team to do that. We want to win with numbing repetition.

Does the principal go through my garbage? The implications of this are mind numbing and infinite.

It was a very numbing affect to sit and watch what was taking place, ... It's just total disbelief what happened.

It's kind of shocking news, ... It's difficult, but God is giving us strength. ...It's kind of numbing right now. I suppose the full impact will hit us later on.

It's become a numbing factor. It doesn't matter.