Quotes About Dulls

Habit dulls all senses, even the victim's, especially when the victim sees that crimes against the voiceless do not count.

The horizon, bloody with the sunset, dulls with smoke and churned-up dirt.

The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ... Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers — common garden variety drunks and druggies, in other words. Any claims that the drugs and alcohol are necessary to dull a finer sensibility are just the usual self-serving bullshit. I've heard alcoholic snowplow drivers make the same claim, that they drink to still the demons.

Art dulls the terror of the void better than anything else.

For nothing on earth so dulls the soul, or inflicts on it such speedy and sure harm, as when it sees and learns that all the things that ought to be expressed only on bended knee and with the full surrender of oneself, are also being continually expressed without this surrender, and without this bending of the knee.

Fear for your life sharpens your edge. Dread dulls it, think of the creep instead, stopping him.

tokenism does not change stereotypes or social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.