Deaden Quotes

13 quotes by 12 authors

That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction. — D. H. Lawrence
In turning away from beauty, we turn away from all that is wholesome and true, and deliver ourselves into an exile where the vulgar and… — John O'Donohue
To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others. — Max Lerner
Some people say they will follow their conscience..many of us have dead consciences. Your conscience is no longer a safe guide. You've harden it, you've… — Billy Graham
What I believe...about more sleep than is needful concerns the individual who goes far beyond the need, developing slothful and lazy habits, which deaden the… — Alvin R. Dyer
About the only other thing I'd want would be a wider neck. My fingers are so fat that sometimes I deaden the string next to… — Terry Kath
The routine of custom tends to deaden even scientific inquiry; it stands in the way of discovery and of the active scientific worker. For discovery… — John Dewey
Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief. — Stephen Grosz
Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that… — Herman Melville
It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you and a world… — John O'Donohue
A new generation of Christians is being called to help build a world in which God's gift of life is welcomed, respected and cherished-not rejected,… — Pope Benedict XVI
Some on commission, some for the love of learning, Some because they have nothing better to do Or because they hope these walls of books… — Louis MacNeice
Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.... I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden… — Agnes Smedley

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