Anesthetics Quotes:

Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Life Is, Operations, Anesthetics

At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.

- Rudolf Arnheim

topic: Confusion, Hospitality, Mets, American Society, Anesthetics

Don't pretend to care. I don't need you as an anesthetic.

- Jenny Downham

topic: Needs, Care, Don't Need You, Anesthetics, I Don't Need You

Puke and starve and cut and drink because you don't want to feel any of this. Puke and starve and cut and drink because you need an anesthetic and it works. For awhile. But then the anesthetic turns into poison and by then it's to late because you are maintaining it now,straight into your soul. It is rotting you and you can't stop.

- Laurie Halse Anderson

source: Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.124, Penguin

topic: Cutting, Soul, Poison, Anesthetics

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

source: Paul Bowles, Gena Dagel Caponi (1993). “Conversations with Paul Bowles”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

topic: Fiction, Isolation, Protect, Anesthetics

I need the anesthetic qualities of the local fire water.

- Anthony Bourdain

source: "Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown", www.cnn.com. July 5, 2014.

topic: Drinking, Fire, Water, Anesthetics

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

topic: Grief, Flower, Thinking, Doctors And Nurses, Painkillers

The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics as avoidance, numbness, and denials.

- Vanna Bonta

topic: Artist, Numbness, Luxury, Forfeit, Anesthetics

Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions. It sanctified, quite like Mohammedism, extermination and tyranny. All this would have been impossible if, like Buddhism, it had looked only for peace and the liberation of souls. It looked beyond; it dreamt of infinite blisses and crowns it should be crowned with before an electrified universe and an applauding God... Buddhism had tried to quiet a sick world with anesthetics; Christianity sought to purge it with fire.

- George Santayana

topic: War, Ambition, Buddhism, Furious, Anesthetics

I feel like 45. I don't look bad for someone my age, with my history of illnesses and operations and all those anesthetics. When they knock you out, it gives you time to catch up on your beauty sleep.

- Elizabeth Taylor

topic: Sleep, Giving, Age, Sleeping Beauty, Anesthetics

Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It is the only medium of art I can think of which appeals directly to none of our five senses. The oral and folk tradition in narrative made use of verse or live-voice dynamics, embellished by gesture and expression--a kind of rudimentary theater--as do the best raconteurs of all times. Commonly there was musical accompaniment as well: a kind of one-man theater-of-mixed-means.

- John Barth

source: John Barth (1984). “The Friday book: essays and other nonfiction”, Putnam Pub Group

topic: Art, Mean, Men, Anesthetics

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

source: Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.109, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

topic: Welfare Programs, Manipulation, Causes, Anesthetics

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

topic: Hands, Feelings, Novelists, Anesthetics

There can be no reasonable right to live on sidewalks. Society needs order, and hence has a right to a minimally civilized ambience in public spaces. Regarding the homeless, this is not merely for aesthetic reasons because the anesthetic is not merely unappealing. It presents a spectacle of disorder and decay that becomes a contagion.

- George Will

topic: Order, Space, Needs, Contagion, Ambience

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

topic: Funny, Humor, Ejaculation, Premature Ejaculation, Anesthetics

Making a record is a lot like surgery without an anesthetic. You first have to cut yourself up the middle. Then you have to rip out every single organ, every single part and lay them on a table. You then need to examine the parts, and the reality of the situation hits you. Then you pop it all back in, sew yourself shut and perform.

- Gerard Way

source: Source: www.teenink.com

topic: Rip, Cutting, Reality, Anesthetics

I would not like to live in the past because you don't get anesthetic when you go to the dentist. You don't get antibiotics. You don't get the things that you are used to now, cell phones and televisions and things that are very convenient. You don't want that. But, it would be fun if you could, every now and then, just meet a friend for lunch at Maxim's in Paris in 1900, or go back to 1870 just for a couple of hours, take a walk in the park, and then come right back to Broadway.

- Woody Allen

source: Source: www.moviesonline.ca

topic: Couple, Fun, Past, Antibiotics, Walks In The Park

Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Strong, Causes, Drink, Anesthetics, Avert

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

source: Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.74, Transaction Publishers

topic: Love, Pain, Men, Life Is Pain, Anesthetics

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

source: C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.46, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

topic: Giving, Devil, Firsts, Anesthetics

I think fear neutralizes alcohol, weakens its anesthetic power. It's good for small fears; your boss, your wife, your bills, your dentist; all right then to take a drink. But for big ones it doesn't do any good. Like water on blazing gasoline, it will only quicken and compound it. It takes sand, in the literal and the slang sense, to smother the bonfire that is fear. And if you're out of sand, then you must burn up.

- Cornell Woolrich

topic: Fear, Thinking, Water, Anesthetics, Literal

Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.

- Al Goldstein

topic: Sex, Roots, Married, Canals, Root Canals

There is no greater anesthetic than sport.

- John Oliver

topic: Sports, Anesthetics

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

source: "To Stop the Multiplication of the Unfit" by Michelle Malkin, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 10, 2012.

topic: White, House, Listening, Anesthetics

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

- Cesare Pavese

source: Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.74, Transaction Publishers

topic: Love, Life, Friendship, Life Is Pain, Pain In Life

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

- David Foster Wallace

topic: Loneliness, Interesting, Being Lonely, Anesthetics

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

topic: Men, Ideas, Sound, Turkish, Vasectomy

The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.

- Mark Twain

topic: Christian, Taken, Biblical, Science Religion, Christian Nation

Some people have a love of their fellow man in their hearts, and others require a light anesthetic.

- Garrison Keillor

source: Garrison Keillor (2009). “Life Among the Lutherans”, Augsburg Fortress Pub

topic: Heart, Men, Light, Anesthetics

Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.

- Norman Cousins

source: Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.11, Open Road Media

topic: Pain, Laughter, Sleep, Anesthetics

It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical folly have been such as caused acute suffering to the patient. When anesthetics were discovered, pious people considered them an attempt to evade the will of God. It was pointed out, however, that when God extracted Adam's rib He put him into a deep sleep. This proved that anesthetics are all right for men; women, however, ought to suffer, because of the curse of Eve.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Sleep, Men, Long, Men Women, Deep Sleep

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

- Frank Leahy

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Pain, Stupidity, Egotism, People Stupidity, Anesthetics

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

source: "Can Science Explain the Soul?" by Stuart Hameroff, Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 9, 2010.

topic: Drug, Body, Awareness, Conscious Awareness, Psychoactive Drugs

Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days

- Hafez

topic: Wisdom, Islamic, Men, Dear Ones, Anesthetics

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.

- Rose Macaulay

source: Rose Macaulay (Dame.), John Hamilton Cowper Johnson (1961). “Letters to a friend, 1950-1952”

topic: Light, Years, Sometimes, Anesthetics

Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges, fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because of the lip-loosening effects of anesthetic. Dreams reflected the ambient anxiety. One German dreamed that an SA man came to his home and opened the door to his oven, which then repeated every negative remark the household had made against the government.

- Erik Larson

topic: Dream, Home, Sleep, Ambient, Anesthetics

I want my whole life lined with a topical anesthetic.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

topic: Anesthetics

A preacher was operated on for a hernia. As this was about the time of the first world war he was given ether. As he was coming out of the anesthetic a fire broke out in the building next door. As the flames began to show through the hospital windows the nurse pulled the shades down. She didn't want the preacher to think his operation had been a failure.

- Art Linkletter

topic: Time, War, Thinking, Anesthetics, Hernias

Perfume acts as an anesthetic. By the time she floats a little your way, you'll promise her anything.

- Bob Hope

topic: Promise, Littles, Way, Anesthetics