Quotes of: Anesthetic Keyword

There is no greater anesthetic than sport.

John Oliver

Father: Prozium - The great nepenthe. Opiate of our masses. Glue of our great society. Salve and salvation, it has delivered us from pathos, from sorrow, the deepest chasms of melancholy and hate. With it, we anesthetize grief, annihilate jealousy, o...

Equilibrium

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Cesare Pavese

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Frank Leahy

It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical folly have been such as caused acute suffering to the patient. When anesthetics were discovered, pious peo...

An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity

The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.

Elvis Costello

Let me put it this way: I definitely need to understand the villains I play. The best cause pain to anesthetize themselves against their own pain.

Ron Perlman

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

David Foster Wallace

Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.

Al Goldstein

It is just when people are all engaged in snooping on themselves and one another that they become anesthetized to the whole process. Tranquilizers and anesthetics, private and corporate, become the largest business in the world just as the world is a...

From Cliche To Archetype

The return to reality was as painful as the return to consciousness after taking an anesthetic

Ethan Frome

That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame.

The Light Between Oceans

The fact remains that most of us are anesthetized to the true cost and true value of long term care insurance.

Michael Burgess

Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.

Innocent Blood

Prayer… panacea for some, placebo to others. I thought of it as an epidural administered through the soul to anesthetize the mind.

Memories With Maya

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

Lady Bird Johnson

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.

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.

Saul Bellow

At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.

Rudolf Arnheim

Somehow, married or single, we'd rather anesthetize ourselves with love substitutes than go for the real thing, because let's face it: The real thing is pretty scary.

Tracy McMillan

She came and took away all his miseries, his sorrows !! Then SHe went and left him restlessly numb. He was her painkiller. SHe, his anesthetic.

Douglas Self