Quotes About Anaesthesia

#1. I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

Antonio Tabucchi

#2. Their conversation was like root canal without anaesthesia.

Tan Redding

#3. Been calm in temperament, kindly, though not of warm

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#4. In order that a "self" may exist there must be some continuity of mental experiences and, particularly, continuity bridging gaps of unconsciousness. For example, the continuity of our "self" is resumed after sleep, anaesthesia, and the temporary amnesias of concussion and convulsions.

John Eccles

#5. Our sisters and brothers were picked up in public by local commanders for the purpose of sex and luxury and we could do nothing.

M.F. Moonzajer

#6. Why are people afraid of ghosts? 'Ooh, no, I wouldn't want to see one! I'd be too scared' - accompanied by a tremolo of fear in the voice - is the common reaction. This puzzles me. I'd think anyone would welcome he opportunity. I've never heard of a ghost hurting anybody.

Dick Cavett

#7. She smiled again. "Do you like cat?" she said.
"Yes," said Richard. "I quite like cats."
Anaesthesia looked relieved. "Thigh?" she asked, "or breast?

Neil Gaiman

#8. Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain.

Margaret Atwood

#9. What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it's a science. It's neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art.

Ben Kingsley

#10. One can only learn what one doesn't know.

Arthur Japin

#11. i am awake only in what i love & desire to the point of terror -- everything else is just shrouded furniture, quotidian anaesthesia, shit-for-brains, sub-reptilian ennui of totalitarian regimes, banal censorship & useless pain ...

Hakim Bey

#12. The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.

Meg Ryan

#13. The imperial, genocidal war machine never rests, so I don't either.

Lydia Lunch