There is such a thing as anaesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne. — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Shaw also said, alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.” — A.J. Finn Copy Share Image
“It wasn't long after the discovery of modern anesthesia that people began to die of it.” — Wolf Pascoe Copy Share Image
The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility. — William Thomas Green Morton Copy Share Image
“Religion is a non-alcoholic man's alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man's religion.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I had rather get a root canal without anesthesia than to call your customer service office for help. — Jon Jones 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
My haircutter figured out I whine less if I'm under general anesthesia. I just hope when I awaken they haven't given me… — Bob Saget 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
It is surely important that the differences between coma, deep sleep, being under anesthesia, on the one hand, and being alert on… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in anesthesia. I think it should be used for every medical procedure, indlucing routine physicals. — Dave Barry 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
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
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
In most societies birth has been an experience in whichwomen draw together to help each other and reinforce bonds in the community.… — Sheila Kitzinger 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
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
“Learn to be fast now. You can learn to be good later.” In the OR, everyone’s eyes are always on the clock.… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
I remember being 14 years old, making a pact with myself. I would never join into the matrix, never join into the… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
...One of the side effects of (surgery, anesthesia,) X-ray..., and chemotherapy, is the suppression...of the patient's immunological defenses...A simple cold often leads… — G. Edward Griffin 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
Different portions of the brain all look for information (sexual, intuitive, practical), through modes so torturous, a first date can feel like… — Marilyn Suzanne Miller 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
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
“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
“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
“Anesthesia was discovered. Do you know what it means to relieve man of his pain and suffering? Anesthesia is the most humane… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as anesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne. — Jack London Copy Share Image
Anesthesia is quite remarkable. It's lost time. And you wake up kind of refreshed. — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
Anesthesia is quite remarkable. Its lost time. And you wake up kind of refreshed. — Michael Keaton 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
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
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
“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
How deep and sticky is the darkness of childhood, how rigid the blades of infant evil, which is unadulterated, unrestrained by the… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
