Dulling Quotes

20 quotes by 19 authors

The glut of information was dulling awareness, not aiding it. — Jerry Mander
We have taught our people to use prayer too much as a means of comfort - not in the original and heroic sense of uplifting,… — Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss or the fierce… — Mark Doty
When the desire is too much to bear, we often bury it beneath frenzied thoughts and activities or escape it by dulling our immediate consciousness… — Gerald May
I can't find the compulsory mutilation of the genitals of children a subject for humor... It's designed to repress sexual pleasure... The full excision, not… — Christopher Hitchens
Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years. — Rose Macaulay
Anarchism aims to strip labor of its deadening, dulling aspect, of its gloom and compulsion. It aims to make work an instrument of joy, of… — Emma Goldman
Slavery is a long slow process of dulling. — Octavia Butler
Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to… — Thomas Willis
It is as great a crime to leave a woman alone in her agony and deny her relief from her suffering as it is to… — Grantly Dick-Read
As I grew up, everything started getting grey and dull. I could still remember the amazing intensity of the world I'd lived in as a… — Keith Johnstone
Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What *psychedelics* are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high or different awareness.… — Terence McKenna
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry,… — Denis Diderot
But I think she would have been happy with Fabrice,' I said. 'He was the great love of her life, you know.' Oh, dulling,' said… — Nancy Mitford
Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition.… — Susan Sontag
You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one… — Ezra Pound
love has a very dulling effect on the brain — Barbara Mertz
I drink in his wholeness, the soudness of his body and mind. It runs through me like the morphling they give me in the hospital,… — Suzanne Collins
Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech… — Leonard Cohen

Who Wrote These Dulling Quotes

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