Quotes About Dulled

But just like one's conscience, a woman's intuition can be dulled if she persistently disregards it. Have you ever noticed that we often regret ignoring our intuition but we never seem to regret listening to it.?

Let the jagged edge of sobriety be now dulled.

The conditions of her life were in no way changed, but her whole existence was dulled, like a faded garment which seems to be no longer worth wearing.

Wood is soft compared to steel, but the sharp steel is dulled as it chops, and the sap of the tree will rust and pit it. The mighty axe does violence to the helpless tree, and is harmed by it. So it is with men, though the harm is in the spirit.

Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.

Revenge was a powerful emotion, and its presence dulled the anxiety

My sense of Shadow was dulled in this place which seemed in some way the essence of Shadow.

all horrors are dulled by routine.

I think we've been dulled by capitalism. We're just blobs now - we're so worried about how we can keep paying the lease on the car, the mortgage, the lease on the toaster and all that. You can't really think about much else. If you lose that, you lose the whole lot.

and when we spoke / we spoke / the sounds of our voices fell / into the air single and / solid and rounded and really / there / and then dulled, and then like sounds / gone, a fistful of gathered / pebbles there was no point / in taking home, dropped on a beachful / of other coloured pebbles

I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled, the greatest words mean.

We continue to live in the dulled, sticky mess of the psychology of religion, which has answers to everything, none of which are true.

senses could be dulled, and you might withdraw into yourself, feeling numb and empty.

tastes, memory, and emotions have to be weakened;

Again, a mechanism that is supposed to transmit information has been dulled.

When the blade dulled, he sharpened it on the rock, an experience he admired-the surface that dulled it could refresh it as well.

If bones could freeze, then the brain could also be dulled and the soul could freeze over. And the soul shuddered and froze- perhaps to remain frozen forever.

Hers would be the perpetual ache of loss and loneliness, slowly dulled with time until it became a part of her character, a faint sourness tinged with withered pride.

As C.S. Lewis says, "God whispers in our pleasures but shouts in our pains. Pain is his megaphone to rouse a dulled world.

Grenouille's mother, however, perceived the odor neither of the fish nor of the corpses, for her sense of smell had been utterly dulled, besides which her belly hurt, and the pain deadened all susceptibility of sensate impressions.