Anesthetized Quotes

#1. It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

Lady Bird Johnson

#2. A small minority cannot control an uncooperative majority, so they must be distracted, divided, tyrannized, or anesthetized into compliance.

Russell Brand

#3. The fact remains that most of us are anesthetized to the true cost and true value of long term care insurance.

Michael Burgess

#4. The object of Zen is not to kill all feelings and become anesthetized to pain and fear. The object of Zen is to free us to scream loudly and fully when it is time to scream.

Francis Harold Cook

#5. We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.

Ezra Pound

#6. The babies had been successfully anesthetized after only a few hours, a complex procedure because of their shared blood vessels.

Ben Carson

#7. Be grateful. These feelings, no matter how painful, are part of
living. Today, we are alive - not anesthetized, not sedated, not passed
out. Take control of your feelings and through action you can change.
Today, as every day of sober living, we have a choice.

Ann D. Clark

#8. People were too anesthetized to the world around them,

Nicole Williams

#9. She'd conjured love in the heart of a man whose soul had been frozen for years, anesthetized by too much pain and guilt to bear.

Tammara Webber

#10. When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; it means that they do not (i)emerge(i), do not (i)leave(i): they are anesthetized and fastened down, like butterflies.

Roland Barthes

#11. Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.

P.D. James

#12. Anesthetized time; nothing moves and everything is at once.

Ken Kesey

#13. Anesthetized by youth, I missed it.

Alan Alda

#14. This is how you lived with a terrible secret. You just did it. You pretend everything was fine. You ingored the deep, cramplike pain in your stomach. You somehow anesthetized yourself so that nothing felt that bad, but nothing felt good either.

Liane Moriarty

#15. While you were anesthetized to the tragedy of life you were able to survive. When clarity was returned to you, when it was painstakingly restored, it could drive you mad.

Salman Rushdie

#16. To get the stuff out of you, especially if what you're dealing with is yourself, requires you to open up and touch tender spots. You have to be anesthetized a little bit.

Paul Simon

#17. This was how it could be done. This was how you lived with a terrible secret. You just did it. You pretended everything was fine. You ignored the deep, cramplike pain in your stomach. You somehow anesthetized yourself so that nothing felt that bad, but nothing felt that good either.

Liane Moriarty

#18. Fritzsche, radio propaganda chief, by manipulation of the truth goaded German public opinion into frenzied support of the regime and anesthetized the independent judgment of the population so that they did without question their masters' bidding.

Hans Fritzsche

#19. The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.

Adrienne Rich

#20. That our pains and longings are thousandfold and can be anesthetized in a thousand different ways is as commonplace a truth as that, in the end, they are all one, and can only be overcome in one way. What you most need is to feel ...

Dag Hammarskjold

#21. Similarly, when you lose yourconsciousness, when you go to sleep at night or when you're anesthetized, youdon't really think that you're really going to be losing your mind.

Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield

#22. I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.

Paloma Faith

#23. She was a stubborn woman who needed a good spanking, and not of the kinky variety.

Shelly Crane

#24. My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.

Carrie Fisher

#25. You don't appreciate things until they're gone. For me, I miss my friends; I don't miss boxing, I miss the camaraderie.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#26. I spent a lot of my time working in the American module, and he would stay in the Russian segment working on his things, and we'd meet up at meal times. So it actually worked out very well.

Leroy Chiao