Desensitized Quotes

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Bauvard
“The amount of educational programming on television today is simply desensitizing. The only reason left to go to school is to see gun violence.”
Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

“The gut is the seat of all feeling. Polluting the gut not only cripples your immune system, but also destroys your sense of empathy, the ability to identify with other humans.”
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“The Cherokee used to fear that taking a photo would make them lose their souls. Over exposure and desensitization is pretty close to losing one's soul. So they were right to quite an extent.”
Sabine Shah

Neal Shusterman
“I ask for guidance. And for courage. And I beg - oh, how I beg - that I never become so desensitized to the death... that it feels normal. Commonplace.”
Neal Shusterman, Scythe

Jhumpa Lahiri
“The blood of too many, dissolving the very stain.”
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

Jill Alexander Essbaum
“In waiting I learn to live with the anticipations of loss—”
Jill Alexander Essbaum, Heaven

Alexander Betts
“Today, due to 24/7 media, the internet, and broadcast news, we know more about suffering elsewhere than any previous generation, and yet we are turning our backs to it.”
Alexander Betts, Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System

Michael Bassey Johnson
“Some people get hurt and get healed. Some get hurt and find it hard to exude even a mustard seed of emotion.”
Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions