"My brain 'tricked' itself into thinking that extreme input was the only input there was. I can't feel anything now. My nerves are deadened, and I can only feel extremes. I spent my whole first night alone slicing my arms and torso with razor blades. I was back on-line to the world, and I wanted desperately to feel something, anything. When I realized that the blades were too sharp to be painful, I found some rusty knives. By the time the other Adepts got back to our hidey hole, I was nearly dead."
— Mage: The Ascension - Tradition Book: Virtual Adepts
Magnus: I can't feel... anything.
Taako: ...so you can't feel sad that you don't have a body, right?
Magnus: I'm not hungry, I don't breathe, my heart doesn't beat. Do you understand?
Taako: ...so you can't feel sad that you don't have a body, right?
Magnus: I'm not hungry, I don't breathe, my heart doesn't beat. Do you understand?
— The Adventure Zone: Balance, "Lunar Interlude V: Reunion Tour"
"Nothing I eat has any taste. Can you imagine what hell that must be?"
— Charlie Nash, Street Fighter V
Asuna: An S-Class ingredient prepared by someone with the highest possible skill? It's LITERALLY the tastiest thing you could ever eat; real or otherwise. What food could possibly compare after that?
Kirito: My God... We "Flowers for Algernon"-ed our TASTEBUDS?!!!
Kirito: My God... We "Flowers for Algernon"-ed our TASTEBUDS?!!!
Baldur: I can't taste. I can't smell. I can't even feel the temperature of this... this room. Feasting... drinking... women. It's all gone. Gone!
Freya: But you will never have to feel pain again. Death has no power over you now. You would rather die?
Baldur: Than never feel again? Yes. YES! I would rather die.
Freya: But you will never have to feel pain again. Death has no power over you now. You would rather die?
Baldur: Than never feel again? Yes. YES! I would rather die.
"Please. It's all well and good to caress cold bone, but it just feels so... empty. Don't misunderstand - I enjoy your company. I enjoy it very much. It's just - I feel nothing. Neither the strength of your hand nor the warmth of your touch."
— Fane, Divinity: Original Sin II
John Corben/Metallo: [bursting through the door] I want those adjustments NOW!
Doctor: What... what adjustments?
Metallo: The ones Luthor told me about when I said I couldn't feel my hands! Those adjustments!
Doctor: Well, the adjustments were yours to make.
Metallo: Mine!? [slams his fist on the desk] You're telling me...
Doctor: There'll always be a certain numbness, a lack of feeling. But you'll get used to it.
Metallo: I don't want to get used to it!
[Metallo throws the desk]
Doctor: Mr. Corben, the operation gave you almost infinite strength. You can never get sick. You're invulnerable to injury. You'll never feel pain again!
Metallo: And what about pleasure, hmm?
Doctor: That... that was never part of the equation.
Metallo: [grabs him by the collar] Find me a body. Change me back. I have to feel!
Doctor: [nervously] We... we can't. The transplant is permanent.
[Corben yells in insane anger and throws the doctor onto a sofa]
Doctor: What... what adjustments?
Metallo: The ones Luthor told me about when I said I couldn't feel my hands! Those adjustments!
Doctor: Well, the adjustments were yours to make.
Metallo: Mine!? [slams his fist on the desk] You're telling me...
Doctor: There'll always be a certain numbness, a lack of feeling. But you'll get used to it.
Metallo: I don't want to get used to it!
[Metallo throws the desk]
Doctor: Mr. Corben, the operation gave you almost infinite strength. You can never get sick. You're invulnerable to injury. You'll never feel pain again!
Metallo: And what about pleasure, hmm?
Doctor: That... that was never part of the equation.
Metallo: [grabs him by the collar] Find me a body. Change me back. I have to feel!
Doctor: [nervously] We... we can't. The transplant is permanent.
[Corben yells in insane anger and throws the doctor onto a sofa]
— Superman: The Animated Series, "The Way Of All Flesh"
"Think of it, Batman. To never again walk upon a summer's day with a hot wind in your face, and a warm hand to hold. Oh, yes. I'd kill for that."
— Mr. Freeze, Batman: The Animated Series, "Heart of Ice"
"You know, I'm supposed to say I don't miss it. That's what they teach you in trauma recovery. Define yourself by what you have, value the differences, make no apologies for what you lack. And it's all true, for the most part... but it doesn't change the fact that I'd give anything to see the sky one more time."
— Matt Murdock, Daredevil, "Into the Ring"
