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
