Benumbing Quotes

#1. I returned from the West, and brought home in my nostrils and nerves that benumbing lethargy, imprudent hostility, and arrogant superiority with which the West viewed the fate of Eastern Europe.

Sandor Marai

#2. There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest in his work. Grief has made many a man look younger.

William McFee

#3. The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.

Charles Caleb Colton

#4. It's the coolest feeling signing your record. And it's great when people come to your shows and know the words to the new songs.

Lights

#5. We are not given any promises that, because of our noble intentions, everything will be okay. We learn that what truly heals is gratitude and tenderness. We [need] to transform our minds and actions for the sake of other people and for the future of the world.

Pema Chodron

#6. For a man, no more beautiful wish has ever found yet than wishing him a life full of kindness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.

Pankaj Mishra

#8. You have me," he rasps as though I'm killing him now. "You fucking have all of me.

Kristen Callihan

#9. People who have been taught to despise themselves cannot easily respect others.

Karen Armstrong

#10. I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.

Mal Peet

#11. Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.

Charles Fort

#12. BlessBacks: Souvenirs for those who express their gratitude to their illuminators.

Julie Saffrin

#13. It's so difficult to shock America these days.

Judd Apatow

#14. But he got right to the top. And I heard harps in the air. My - my master builder!

Henrik Ibsen