Best Anesthetics Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: God in the Dock

“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?”

Men Want Love Doe Pain Life Is Love Is Wake Up Operations Enjoyment Halfway Lifelong Anesthetics Life Is Pain

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“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.”

Mets Confusion Hotel Conventions Aesthetic Hospitality Aesthetics Annuals American Society Anesthetics

Book:Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest

Source: Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest

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

Enough Strong Causes Crime Drink Endure Gross Strong Enough Avert Anesthetics

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“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.”

Giving Feels Looks Age Sleep Illness Operations Sleeping Beauty Anesthetics

Author:Elizabeth Taylor

“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.”

“I need the anesthetic qualities of the local fire water.”

Needs Water Quality Fire Drinking Locals Anesthetics

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“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.”

Source: The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction

“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.”

Thinking Firsts Littles Walks Grief Attention Flower Losing Doctors Legs Cards Shock Nurse Loved Ones Sooner Or Later Losing A Loved One Anesthetics Painkillers Doctors And Nurses

Author:Ruth Graham

“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.”

Artist Pay Dues Luxury Primaries Denial Avoidance Numbness Forfeit Anesthetics

Author:Vanna Bonta

“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.”

Ends Problem Causes Solutions Program Instruments Welfare Manipulation Concrete Oppressed Conquest Anesthetics Welfare Programs

Book:Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

“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.”

Ifs Want Would Be Past Used Fun Hours Walks Television Couple Phones Cells Paris Parks Lunch Now And Then Broadway Maxims Convenient Cell Phone Dentist Antibiotics Anesthetics Walks In The Park

Author:Woody Allen

“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.”

Needs Firsts Reality Situation Records Cutting Middle Tables Lays Pops Organs Surgery Rip Anesthetics

Author:Gerard Way

“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!”

People Humor Funny Lasts Numb Premature Condom Anesthetics Ejaculation Premature Ejaculation

Author:Frankie Boyle

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

Life Is Operations Anesthetics

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“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.”

Needs Reason Order Space Reasonable Civilized Disorder Aesthetic Decay Homeless Sidewalk Contagion Anesthetics Ambience

Author:George Will

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

Way Littles Promise Perfume Floats Anesthetics

Author:Bob Hope

“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.”

Ifs Enough House Left White Behinds Listening Birth Wake Up Senses White House Progressive Parenthood Rhetoric Left Behind Benevolence Birth Control Planned Parenthood Anesthetics

Author:Michelle Malkin

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

Love Life Pain Success Life Is Friendship Love Is Enjoyment Anesthesia Anesthetics Pain In Life Life Is Pain

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“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.”

Feelings Hands Accepting Novelists Fallen Surgeons Anesthetics

Author:Saul Bellow

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

Persons Interesting Loneliness Desperate Interesting Things Being Lonely Anesthetics

Author:David Foster Wallace

“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.”

Ifs Men Ideas Sound Imagine Music Is Turkish Frantic Anesthetics Vasectomy

Author:Bill Bryson

“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.”

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

People Men Heart Light Fellows Fellow Man Anesthetics

Book:Life Among the Lutherans

Source: Life Among the Lutherans

“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.”

Want Needs Feels Soul Turns Cutting Drink Late Your Soul Poison Maintaining Rotting Puke Anesthetics

Book:Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

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

Needs Care Need You Anesthetics Don't Need You I Don't Need You

Book:Before I Die

Source: Before I Die

“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.”

Fiction Protect Concepts Isolation Isolated Cushions Anesthetics

Book:Conversations with Paul Bowles

Source: Conversations with Paul Bowles

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

Giving Two Pain Hours Sleep Minutes Effects Ten Laughter Give Me Aging Genuine Belly Anesthetics

Book:Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration

Source: Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration

“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.”

Source: Atheism: collected essays, 1943-1949

“Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.”

Pain Ego Stupidity Nfl Narcissism Egotism Humility And Modesty Anesthetics People Stupidity

Author:Frank Leahy

“The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve.”

Use Religion Church Sin Discovery Innovation Curse Biblical Science And Religion Avoided Childbirth Science Religion Science Vs Religion Anesthetics

Author:Mark Twain

“The drug ketamine, used as a 'dissociative' anesthetic, can produce subjective reports of conscious awareness outside the body, as can various other psychoactive drugs.”

Body Used Awareness Produce Drug Conscious Various Reports Subjective Conscious Awareness Anesthetics Psychoactive Drugs

Author:Stuart Hameroff

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

Men Wisdom Dear Tiny Islamic Relief Frightened Sad Day Anesthetics Dear Ones

Author:Hafez

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

Years Sometimes Light Conscience Anesthetics

Book:Letters to a friend, 1950-1952

Source: Letters to a friend, 1950-1952

“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.”

Men Made Home Dream Government Might Fear Sleep Doors Effects Grew Anxiety Negative Lips Household Surgery Remarks Reluctant Skis Ovens Lodges Ambient Anesthetics

Author:Erik Larson

“I want my whole life lined with a topical anesthetic.”

Want Whole Whole Life Anesthetics

Book:Survivor: A Novel

Source: Survivor: A Novel

“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.”

“There is no greater anesthetic than sport.”

Sports Greater Anesthetics

Author:John Oliver

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

Sex Married Roots Awake Canals Anesthetics Autopsy Root Canals

Author:Al Goldstein

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Bigs Fear Water Wife Drink Bills Alcohol Sand Boss Literal Compounds Dentist Gasoline Blazing Slang Bonfire Anesthetics

Author:Cornell Woolrich