
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