Quotes of Numb - somelinesforyou

“ So, fall asleep love, loved by me....for I know love, I am loved by thee. ”

- Robert Browning

“ I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep. ”

- George Best

“ That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it. ”

- George Carlin

“ Always kiss your children goodnight - even if they're already asleep. ”

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“ I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up. ”

- Larry Flynt

“ There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep. ”

- Herman Melville

“ When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her. ”

- John Dryden

“ The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep. ”

- Richard Nixon

“ 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

“ Safety is the most unsafe spiritual path you can take. Safety keeps you numb and dead. People are caught by surprise when it is time to die. They have allowed themselves to live so little. ”

- Stephen Levine

“ 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 name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. ”

- Marshall McLuhan

“ Practice, practice, practice until you eventually get numb on rejections. ”

- Brian Klemmer

“ Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. ”

- J. K. Rowling

“ Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades. ”

- Boris Pasternak
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