Deadens Quotes

Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future — Maxim Gorky

This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity. — Lew Wallace

Evaluate every act by whether it brings you greater life, or deadens you. — Alan Cohen

Algebra, like laudanum, deadens pain, Fritz wrote. — Penelope Fitzgerald

On the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble, may the clay dance to balance you. — John O'Donohue

Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant. — Edmund Burke

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. — Alexander Berkman

Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it. — Hannah More

It is the very use of coercion, positive or negative, that breaks or deadens the spirit, which is the source of motivation. — Kelly Bryson

Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us. — Jonathan Nolan

With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it. — Louis Kronenberger