Anesthetic Quotes

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. (Cesare Pavese)
The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness. View quote
David Foster Wallace
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. View quote
Frank Leahy
Welfare programs as instruments of manipulation ultimately serve the end of conquest. They act as an anesthetic, distracting the oppressed from the true causes of their problems and from the concrete solutions of these problems. View quote
Paulo Freire
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be "lifelong"? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation? View quote
Cesare Pavese
I think fear neutralizes alcohol, weakens its anesthetic power. It's good for small fears; your boss, your wife, your bills, your dentist; all right then to take a drink. But for big ones it doesn't do any good. Like water on blazing gasoline, it will only quicken and compound it. It takes sand, in the literal and the slang sense, to smother the bonfire that is fear. And if you're out of sand, then you must burn up. View quote
Cornell Woolrich
Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic. View quote
Al Goldstein
Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep. View quote
Norman Cousins
Is it not altogether absurd that, under actual circumstances, the average man does not feel spontaneously, and without being preached at, an ardent enthusiasm for those sciences and the related ones of biology?... Every day furnishes a new invention which this average man utilises. Every day produces a new anesthetic or vaccine from which this average man benefits. ... How is it, nevertheless, that there is no sign of the masses imposing on themselves any sacrifice of money or attention in order to endow science more worthily? Far from this being the case, the post-war period has converted the man of science into a new social pariah. View quote
José Ortega y Gasset
If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like. View quote
Bill Bryson
Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic. (Paul Bowles)
Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years. View quote
Rose Macaulay
With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence. View quote
Saul Bellow
Puke and starve and cut and drink because you don't want to feel any of this. Puke and starve and cut and drink because you need an anesthetic and it works. For awhile. But then the anesthetic turns into poison and by then it's to late because you are maintaining it now,straight into your soul. It is rotting you and you can't stop. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren't listening closely enough. The anesthetic of progressive benevolence always dulls the senses. Wake up. View quote
Michelle Malkin
There is no greater anesthetic than sport. View quote
John Oliver (comedian)
Some people have a love of their fellow man in their hearts, and others require a light anesthetic. View quote
Garrison Keillor
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. View quote
Booker T. Washington