Anesthesia Quotes

32 Anesthesia quotes by 29 unique authors

In a foreign country it is far from easy to study a scene at length when you know that at any minute someone may appear… — Robert Adams
I had rather get a root canal without anesthesia than to call your customer service office for help. — Jon Jones
In most societies birth has been an experience in whichwomen draw together to help each other and reinforce bonds in the community. Now that eradication… — Sheila Kitzinger
I dont know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, its always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia. As… — Koren Zailckas
...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 to the death… — G. Edward Griffin
Doctors...from the Office of Info. Tech. at Harvard U.(:)...Their appraisal of 46 surgical or anesthesia breakthroughs...suggested...only 13% were highly preferred (and)...in nearly half the cases… — Jeffrey Bland
I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you… — Nick Rhodes
How deep and sticky is the darkness of childhood, how rigid the blades of infant evil, which is unadulterated, unrestrained by the convenient cushions of… — Katherine Dunn
I have taken as much as six years to prepare a book for writing. There is such a delirium of effort in the production of… — John Steinbeck
Why does the longing for love have to be so acute, like a desperate thirst? Is it because love is wanting to be saved and… — Jonathan Hull
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
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. — George Bernard Shaw
There's something about sober living and sober thinking, about facing long afternoons without the numbing distraction of anesthesia that disabuses you of the belief in… — Caroline Knapp
From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid… — Amy Tan
People don't become inured to what they are shown - if that's the right way to describe what happens - because of the quantity of… — Susan Sontag
There is such a thing as anesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne. — Jack London
I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon… — Koren Zailckas
Luxury cruises were designed to make something unbearable (a two week transatlantic crossing) seem bearable. There's no need to do it now, there are planes.… — Tina Fey
I had always turned to books, to knowledge, to help me get through everything in my lifeâ€”and, sometimes, to escape it. But grief was a… — Michele Bardsley
When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One of the few… — Nicholas D. Kristof

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