Sedative Quotes

#1. Poor sleepers should endeavor to compose themselves. Tampering with empty space, stirring up echoes in pitch-black pits of darkness is scarcely sedative.
("Out Of The Deep")

Walter De La Mare

#2. Comfort is a powerful sedative.

Samantha Garman

#3. If one has not heard Wagner at Bayreuth, one has heard nothing! Take lots of handkerchiefs because you will cry a great deal! Also take a sedative because you will be exalted to the point of delirium!

Gabriel Faure

#4. To use a good book as a sedative is conspicuous waste.

Mortimer J. Adler

#5. Although it takes a long warm-up for an eight to swing, on an erg such subtleties don't matter. For me the sound alone raised my pulse to 120. Tying my feet into the stretchers increased it to 180. My maximum pulse was 200. I didn't need a warmup. I needed a sedative.

Stefan Kieszling

#6. The Lost Weekend was the only book, out of five books, that I wrote sober, without stimulus or sedative.

Blake Bailey

#7. Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative.

Tod Machover

#8. A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

Naomi Wolf

#9. The only effect that I ever noticed from smoking marijuana was a sort of mild sedative, a release of tension when I was overworking. It never made me boisterous of quarrelsome. If anything, it calmed me and reduced my activity.

Robert Mitchum

#10. All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.

Erica Jong

#11. There was a time when he used alcohol as a stimulant, something to lift his spirits and give him energy, but now he drinks like all parents drink, as a kind of early evening sedative.

David Nicholls

#12. Well, at least we were getting the good night's sleep,' Franz said, cheerfully.

'I'd hardly call being knocked unconscious with sedative gas a good night's sleep,' Nigel said, frowning.

Mark Walden

#13. Her laughter is like a sedative. Then everything falls apart and reassembles itself.

Robert Bolano

#14. Then he holds her and for a moment I hear total silence; that totally silent part of a cry that announces that the most horrible grief is going to follow. And it does, and he's muffling it, but I can hear and I want someone to come over and jab her with a sedative because its pitch pierces my soul.

Melina Marchetta

#15. Matthias handed over the bag. "What are you looking for?"
"A sedative," said the medik.
"Is that safe for a pregnant woman?"
"For me.

Leigh Bardugo

#16. There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#17. The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.

George Henry Borrow

#18. And he was like "The sedative in the blood, blah, blah, four hours, blah, blah, nerdspeak, geektalk -" -Abby

Christopher Moore

#19. The habit is now confirmed in me of spending the greater part of the day in sleep, while by night I wander far and wide through the city under the sedative influence of a tincture which has become necessary to my life

M.P. Shiel

#20. I'm not the quiet sensitive little guy I was. I can't be. There's just too much after me.

Dan Fogelberg

#21. I'm quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I'm relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#22. You've run a lot of risks, and gone to a lot of work, and all to turn me into a bullet for your gun. But I'm a bullet that thinks for itself, and I want to know what I'm being shot at.

Emma Bull

#23. I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.

Eddie Marsan

#24. I am salivating.
There's a challenge in her eyes, making her the bravest girl I've ever met, because I will bloody well lay her down right here on Blake's deck and pick up where I left off in that hotel room. I will have that bikini off faster than she can gasp.

Wendy Higgins

#25. the atmosphere it breathed was like the light-rinsed airiness of a wall opposite an open window.

Donna Tartt