Causes Quote by Antonin Scalia

Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain.

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Jack London

At the WTO, it's never a general surgery. It's always a very specific, clinical, precise surgery - and you can't miss the target. If…

— Roberto Azevedo

Requiring that an execution be relatively painless...actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based.

— John Paul Stevens

“Looking at those gashed bodies, and at the witnesses of the execution, doubled up by grief like snapped reeds, I gradually understood that, beyond…

— W.G. Sebald

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

— Jack London

Surgery is just stabbing in a courteous environment

— A.L. Kennedy

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

— Ernest Hemingway

The patients often try to starve themselves, to hang themselves, to cut their arteries; they beg that they may be burned, buried alive, driven…

— Emil Kraepelin

It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.

— Jamie Lee Curtis

The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain

— Samuel Johnson

The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.

— William Stewart Halsted