Top 49 Anesthetic Quotes
#1. She came and took away all his miseries, his sorrows !!
Then SHe
went and left him restlessly numb. He was her
painkiller. SHe, his anesthetic.
Douglas Self
#2. The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are children of the rich, who grow up to privilege and anesthetic oblivion to pain - and who then use the servants produced by ghetto schools.
Jonathan Kozol
#3. Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be "lifelong"? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
Cesare Pavese
#4. Oh Daddy, can't you give her something to make her stop screaming?" asked Nick.
"No. I haven't any anesthetic," his father said. "But her screams are not important. I don't hear them because they are not important."
-Indian Camp-
Ernest Hemingway,
#5. Cynicism is a powerful anesthetic we use to numb ourselves to pain, but which also, by its nature, numbs us to truth and joy.
Rachel Held Evans
#6. Welfare programs as instruments of manipulation ultimately serve the end of conquest. They act as an anesthetic, distracting the oppressed from the true causes of their problems and from the concrete solutions of these problems.
Paulo Freire
#7. Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.
Paul Bowles
#8. The colonel had a single vice - whiskey - and he looked forward to the anesthetic burn of the Kentucky bourbon with sublime anticipation.
Greg Iles
#9. A writer who renders the brutal actions of men in excruciating detail, seldom applying the anesthetic of psychology, [Cormac] McCarthy would much rather orate than confide.
Richard B. Woodward
#10. Then, when shame strikes, it is so nasty you have to numb yourself, and what better anesthetic than your addiction? It is the perfect vicious circle.
Edward T. Welch
#11. Studies have shown that swearing has an anesthetic effect. Swearing eases pain.
Isaac Marion
#12. They've bought out a condom now for people with premature ejaculation and they've put an anesthetic in the lining that makes you numb and you can last for longer. Or, you can wear it inside out and you don't have to wake anybody up!
Frankie Boyle
#13. I think losing a loved one must be a little like losing a leg. First there is the shock, then the anesthetic, and the painkillers; the attention of doctors and nurses, flowers and cards and visits from friends. But sooner or later you have to learn to walk without it.
Ruth Graham
#14. Let's here it for modern dentistry, eh? I said, and he grimaced. Actually, as much as people dislike going to the dentist now, try doing it two hundred years ago, when having a cavity meant some quack knocking it out with a chisel and a hammer in the market square. With no anesthetic.
Cate Tiernan
#15. Perfume acts as an anesthetic. By the time she floats a little your way, you'll promise her anything.
Bob Hope
#16. Happiness is bliss - but ignorance is anesthetic, and in the face of what's to come, that may be all we can hope for our ill-fated acquaintances.
William Ritter
#17. With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.
Saul Bellow
#18. But now and then, beneath the outer numbness, something stirred, like a living pain waiting for the anesthetic to wear away.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
#19. Some people have a love of their fellow man in their hearts, and others require a light anesthetic.
Garrison Keillor
#20. Sexually he was like a dose of anesthetic, he made her go dead all over, but he was so nice!
Judith Rossner
#21. Dentists and surgeons frequently used nitrous oxide as an anesthetic. Travis
Dean Koontz
#22. There is no greater anesthetic than sport.
John Oliver
#23. He had to stand on guard against his own feeling - as if some part of him had become a stranger that had to be kept numb, and his will had to be its constant, watchful anesthetic.
Ayn Rand
#24. Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.
Norman Cousins
#25. Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.
George Bernard Shaw
#26. The drug ketamine, used as a 'dissociative' anesthetic, can produce subjective reports of conscious awareness outside the body, as can various other psychoactive drugs.
Stuart Hameroff
#27. Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?
Ernest Hemingway,
#28. Don't pretend to care. I don't need you as an anesthetic.
Jenny Downham
#29. With plastic surgery, the general anesthetic is like a black-velvety sleep, and that's what death is - without waking up to someone clapping and going, 'Joan, wake up, it's all over and you're looking pretty'.
Joan Rivers
#30. If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.
Bill Bryson
#32. Discouragement is the anesthetic the devil uses on a person just before he reaches in and carves out his heart.
Ray Johnston
#33. Love is the anesthetic applied by Nature to extract babies.
David Mitchell
#34. Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.
Rose Macaulay
#35. Wishes are an anesthetic to
be used by the unambitious, a
narcotic that dulls their awareness of
their own desperate condition
Jim Rohn
#36. Here are condoms lined with a topical anesthetic for prolonged action. What a paradox. You don't feel a thing, but you can fuck for hours.
Chuck Palahniuk
#37. The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.
David Foster Wallace
#38. Because there wasn't anything else to do, he settled at the kitchen table
with a bottle of mead and nearly emptied it. The anesthetic effect he hoped for hadn't happened, though. At least not yet.
Ann Gimpel
#40. Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
Cesare Pavese
#41. If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic
to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you become aware of them.
C.S. Lewis
#42. As long ago as 1860 it was the proper thing to be born at home. At present, so I am told, the high gods of medicine have decreed that the first cries of the young shall be uttered upon the anesthetic air of a hospital, preferably a fashionable one.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#43. For them, the last option was to have brain surgery, which involved removing parts of the skull and exposing the brain. (Since the brain has no pain sensors, a person can be conscious during this entire procedure, so Dr. Penfield used only a local anesthetic during the operation.)
Michio Kaku
#44. Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days
Hafez
#45. The return to reality was as painful as the return to consciousness after taking an anesthetic
Edith Wharton
#46. Yukiko stared back at him. Slurred words and a soft stare, that stupefied, slack-jawed look slinking over his face and turning his skin to gray. An anesthetic, numbing the pain of well deserved loss.
Jay Kristoff
#47. If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren't listening closely enough. The anesthetic of progressive benevolence always dulls the senses. Wake up.
Michelle Malkin
#48. Time doesn't actually heal anything, but a large enough dose will eventually act as an anesthetic.
Stephen H. Banks
#49. I took my right hand off the wheel and reverse-punched him square between the eyes. It was a good solid smack. It put him right back to sleep. Manual anesthetic. He stayed out all the way back to the post.
Lee Child
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