Anesthesia Quote by Karl Kraus Download Open image “Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.” — Karl Kraus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anesthesia Pain Without pain Wounds
There is such a thing as anaesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne. — Jack London 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
Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The wounds that cannot be seen are more painful than those that can be treated by a doctor. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility. — William Thomas Green Morton Copy Share Image
Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic? — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“The return to reality was as painful as the return to consciousness after taking an anesthetic” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The surgery of life hurts. It helps me, though, to know that the surgeon himself, the Wounded Surgeon, has felt every stab of pain… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all,… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“Shaw also said, alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.” — A.J. Finn Copy Share Image
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 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 mouth and… — 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 the quantity… — 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 anesthesia in… — 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 finger wave,… — 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, sans anesthesia.… — 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 are dissecting… — 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 a goddess. — 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 be saved… — 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 itself, and… — 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, sans anesthesia.… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image