Top 14 Deadener Quotes
#1. We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
Samuel Beckett
#2. Time is a great deadener; people forget, get bored, grow old, go away.
Jeanette Winterson
#3. Routine is supposed to be the great deadener of souls; how much worse is the half-completed task, the broken round, the unfulfilled routine?
Richard Brookhiser
#5. The narrative compression of storytelling, especially in the movies, beguiles us with happy endings into forgetting that sustained stress is corrosive of feeling. It's the great deadener. Those moments of joyful release from terror are not so easily had.
Ian McEwan
#6. At least some of the items in a Homeric list of the aretai would clearly not be counted by most of us nowadays as virtues at all, physical strength being the most obvious example.
Alasdair MacIntyre
#8. No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.
Desmond Morris
#9. Although you feel tepid, approach with confidence, for the greater your infirmity the more you stand in need of a physician.
Bonaventure
#10. I kiss him to get him to stop talking. If he keeps talking I will love him, and I don't want to love him. I really don't. As strategies go, it's not my finest. Kissing is just another way of talking except without the words.
Nicola Yoon
#11. Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.
Ambrose Bierce
#12. Well what does it matter,' he muttered when he was out in the corridor. 'Who wants to know the end of a story in advance?
Cornelia Funke
#13. Memories fade like scars but they don't disappear.
Kate Spencer
#14. Being nice should never be perceived as being weak. It's not a sign of weakness, it's a sign of courtesy, manners, grace, a woman's ability to make everyone ... feel at home, and it should never be construed as weakness ...
Benazir Bhutto
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