Anesthesia Quotes

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

  Cesare Pavese

  Love, Life, Friendship

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

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• Anesthesia is quite remarkable. Its lost time. And you wake up kind of refreshed.

  Michael Keaton

  Wake Up, Kind, Lost

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• Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.

  Karl Kraus

  Pain, Without Pain, Wounds

  Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.42, University of Illinois Press

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  Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Life, Drinking

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• To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Funny, Mistake

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.57, Vintage

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• When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One of the few societies to take a contrary view was the Huichol tribe in Mexico. The Huichol believed that the pain of childbirth should be shared, so the mother would hold on to a string tied to her husband's testicles. With each painful contraction, she would give the string a yank so that the man could share the burden. Surely if such a mechanism were more widespread, injuries in childbirth would garner more attention.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Mother, Husband, Pain

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• I'm a big believer in anesthesia. I think it should be used for every medical procedure, indlucing routine physicals.

  Dave Barry

  Thinking, Routine, Medical

  Dave Barry (2010). “I'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood”, p.83, Penguin

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• It is surely important that the differences between coma, deep sleep, being under anesthesia, on the one hand, and being alert on the other, all involve changes in the brain.

  Patricia Churchland

  Sleep, Hands, Differences

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Politics is the art of anesthesia.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Art, Politics

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• Fantasy, at its best, is balm for the soul. But it is faulty logic to assume that balm is necessarily mind-numbing anesthesia.

  Vera Nazarian

  Soul, Mind, Logic

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• Why does the longing for love have to be so acute, like a desperate thirst? Is it because love is wanting to be saved and we can never really be saved? Maybe love is really born of our fears. Love is the heart’s desire for a painkiller; a tearful plea for a great big epidural. Yes that’s it: love is the only anesthesia that really works. And so people with broken hearts are really those who are just coming to, and if you’ve ever seen someone come out of general anesthesia, you know that it looks a lot like the beginnings of a broken heart.

  Jonathan Hull

  Heart, Love Is, People

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• There is such a thing as anaesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne.

  Jack London

  Pain, Exquisite

  "The Star Rover".

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• I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it.

  Nick Rhodes

  Trust, Letting Go, Ideas

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• From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.

  Amy Tan

  Pain, Stupid, Men

  Amy Tan (2005). “Saving Fish from Drowning”, p.24, Penguin

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• There's something about sober living and sober thinking, about facing long afternoons without the numbing distraction of anesthesia that disabuses you of the belief in the externals, shows you that strength and hope come not from circumstances or the acquisition of things, but from the simple accumulation of active experience, from gritting the teeth and checking the items off the list, one by one, even if it's painful and you're afraid.

  Caroline Knapp

  Simple, Thinking, Long

  Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.108, Dial Press

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• I had rather get a root canal without anesthesia than to call your customer service office for help.

  Jon Jones

  Roots, Office, Helping

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• I had always turned to books, to knowledge, to help me get through everything in my life—and, sometimes, to escape it. But grief was a journey through a forest of razor blades. I walked through every painful inch of it—no shortcuts and no anesthesia.

  Michele Bardsley

  Grief, Book, Journey

  Michele Bardsley (2007). “Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire”, p.99, Penguin

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• Maybe honeymoons are God's anesthesia. Like the "laughing gas" used by dentists, perhaps honeymoons are designed to protect us from a bit of the pain and fear involved in doing something that, while scary and uncomfortable, is for our own good in the long run.

  Sue Thoele

  Running, Pain, Long

  Sue Patton Thoele (2003). “The Courage to be a Stepmom: Finding Your Place Without Losing Yourself”, p.90, Council Oak Books

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• For all of my patients sensuality is a giving in to 'the low side of their nature.' Puritanism is powerful and distorts their life with a total anesthesia of the senses. If you atrophy one sense, you also atrophy all the others, a sensuous and physical connection with nature, with art, with food, with other human beings.

  Anais Nin

  Art, Powerful, Giving

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• My haircutter figured out I whine less if I'm under general anesthesia. I just hope when I awaken they haven't given me a Brazilian wax.

  Bob Saget

  Given, Havens, Ifs

  Twitter post from May 07, 2011

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• I have taken as much as six years to prepare a book for writing. There is such a delirium of effort in the production of a book; it's like childbirth. And, like childbirth, one forgets the pains immediately so that when you come to write another one you dare to take it up again. Some precious anesthesia sees you through.

  John Steinbeck

  Pain, Book, Taken

  John Steinbeck, Thomas Fensch (1988). “Conversations with John Steinbeck”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Circumcision in the United States is routinely performed without anesthesia, though anesthesia reduces the infant's stress and prevents infection and blood clots.

  Warren Farrell

  Stress, Blood, United States

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• In a foreign country it is far from easy to study a scene at length when you know that at any minute someone may appear and ask what you are doing and that you can't answer, and you haven't many references, and you don't know the law. Neither is it easy to find and know the subjects for portraits or comfortable to make such picture when you cannot apply an anesthesia of small talk.

  Robert Adams

  Photography, Country, Law

  Robert Adams, Maren Stange (1990). “Paul Strand: essays on his life and work”

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• To write poetry, like sincere poetry, it is like performing heart surgery on yourself without anesthesia...in public...You are peeling back layers. You are dissecting yourself...You do not know what they [the audience] is going to do when you reach into yourself and rip out your organs to be displayed

  Amir Sulaiman

  Rip, Writing, Heart

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• Doctors...from the Office of Info. Tech. at Harvard U.(:)...Their appraisal of 46 surgical or anesthesia breakthroughs...suggested...only 13% were highly preferred (and)...in nearly half the cases the new therapy was no better than the therapy it replaced. ...About 12% of the innovations increased complications.

  Jeffrey Bland

  Dark, Doctors, Office

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