I used to like the anesthesia. It was like my favorite part of the whole thing, the 10 seconds before you go… — Al Iaquinta Copy Share Image
“When Dr. James Young Simpson sought to apply anesthesia to a woman in childbirth, the clergymen of his day foamed at the… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
People don't become inured to what they are shown - if that's the right way to describe what happens - because of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Everyone agrees that animals should not be exposed to unnecessary pain. But neither should scientists be hamstrung by the requirement to use… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
“I asked her, dreamily, if we had met, and when she told me that we had not, I gave her a little… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon,… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
To write poetry, like sincere poetry, it is like performing heart surgery on yourself without anesthesia...in public...You are peeling back layers. You… — Amir Sulaiman Copy Share Image
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Why does the longing for love have to be so acute, like a desperate thirst? Is it because love is wanting to… — Jonathan Hull Copy Share Image
“Pain is a Medical Orphan. Perhaps because it has traditionally been considered the consequence of disease or injury, not an illness in… — Henry Jay Przybylo Copy Share Image
I dont know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, its always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon,… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
Maybe honeymoons are God's anesthesia. Like the "laughing gas" used by dentists, perhaps honeymoons are designed to protect us from a bit… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For all of my patients sensuality is a giving in to 'the low side of their nature.' Puritanism is powerful and distorts… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Luxury cruises were designed to make something unbearable (a two week transatlantic crossing) seem bearable. There's no need to do it now,… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I have taken as much as six years to prepare a book for writing. There is such a delirium of effort in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon,… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
“She came and took away all his miseries, his sorrows !! Then SHe went and left him restlessly numb. He was her… — Self Copy Share Image
From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Oh, look, the lights are so pretty,” I said dreamily, having just noticed them. I smiled at the way the lights were… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost… — Nick Rhodes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
