Anesthesia is quite remarkable. It's lost time. And you…

“Shaw also said, alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.”

— A.J. Finn

I used to like the anesthesia. It was like my favorite part of the whole thing, the 10 seconds before you go out. You…

— Al Iaquinta

“When Dr. James Young Simpson sought to apply anesthesia to a woman in childbirth, the clergymen of his day foamed at the mouth and…

— Joseph Lewis

People don't become inured to what they are shown - if that's the right way to describe what happens - because of the quantity…

— Susan Sontag

Everyone agrees that animals should not be exposed to unnecessary pain. But neither should scientists be hamstrung by the requirement to use anesthesia in…

— Timothy Noah

“I asked her, dreamily, if we had met, and when she told me that we had not, I gave her a little finger wave,…

— David Sedaris

I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia.…

— Koren Zailckas

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…

— Amir Sulaiman

“Learn to be fast now. You can learn to be good later.” In the OR, everyone’s eyes are always on the clock. For the…

— Paul Kalanithi

Anesthesia before anesthesia.

— Alla

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

Why does the longing for love have to be so acute, like a desperate thirst? Is it because love is wanting to be saved…

— Jonathan Hull

“Pain is a Medical Orphan. Perhaps because it has traditionally been considered the consequence of disease or injury, not an illness in itself, and…

— Henry Jay Przybylo

I dont know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, its always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia.…

— Koren Zailckas

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…

— Sue Thoele