Vanessa Redgrave Quotes

I'm growing very talented at watching blood and guts on screen because I have zero emotional response.

We live in a world where sort of nothing is shocking anymore.

I understand that it's incredibly difficult to watch what's happening on the news every day and not become inured to it. I've fallen victim to that myself, wanting to look away.

It is quite amazing what I didn't feel after a while. I didn't really want to feel things.

There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

There's nothing you could say that would shock me.

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Nothing can shock me.

I'm not surprised by hardly anything anymore.

We live in an anaesthetized society.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

In order to endure death and horror one tends to kill ones own humanity, which is a much greater danger than not being able to bear it.

Maybe it's because I'm jaded, but not a lot scares me.

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

Nothing really shocks me anymore.

The military and the Marine Corps prepared me to be numb to the stress.

The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.

It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering

Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.

Pity those who don't feel anything at all

I care so much about everything that I care about nothing.

Nothing surprises me. After Donald Trump, nothing matters, does it?

So what’s it like to live without emotions? (Geary) It’s hard. Imagine a world without taste. A world where you can see the colors and all, but you can’t feel it. A beautiful clear day can never choke you up. A child’s laughter doesn’t make you smile. You don’t look at a bunny and think ‘how cute.’ You feel absolutely nothing. It’s like being wrapped in thick cotton all the time. (Arik)

She had changed him. The ice was in his eyes and in his heart, like he had predicted with that song, but now they were deep embedded there, all the pain of the world. Not pain to make you feel for somebody else but pain to make you stop feeling.

My girlfriend said, Emo, I'm seeing another man. I said, Well, try rubbing your eyes or something.