Quotes About Anesthetic

What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use it as an anesthetic to get to the heart and soul of real issues. And what I've found on stage over the years is that, while making people laugh, I can drop in pearls of wisdom.

With plastic surgery, the general anesthetic is like a black-velvety sleep, and that's what death is - without waking up to someone clapping and going, 'Joan, wake up, it's all over and you're looking pretty'.

Sexually he was like a dose of anesthetic, he made her go dead all over, but he was so nice!

Some people have a love of their fellow man in their hearts, and others require a light anesthetic.

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.

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

Grief, however, creates a strange sensitivity. The world is too intense to tolerate: a veil, a drink, another anesthetic is required to blot out the ache of what remains. One sees too much and feels it, as Robert Lowell puts it, with one skin-layer missing.

Newer agents for treatment of seizures in critically ill patients include the phenytoin prodrug, fosphenytoin; the anesthetic agent, propofol; and the water-soluble benzodiazepine, midazolam.

But now and then, beneath the outer numbness, something stirred, like a living pain waiting for the anesthetic to wear away.

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.

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

But why must all the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?

Oh Daddy, can't you give her something to make her stop screaming? asked Nick. No. I haven't any anesthetic, his father said. But her screams are not important. I don't hear them because they are not important. -Indian Camp-

As long ago as 1860 it was the proper thing to be born at home. At present, so I am told, the high gods of medicine have decreed that the first cries of the young shall be uttered upon the anesthetic air of a hospital, preferably a fashionable one.

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

I think sometimes that I must live a great part of my life in a trance, or in some sort of anesthetic state.

Being annoyed by anything is an anesthetic to grace and goodness. Instead, let annoyance be love that kisses you with broken lips. Only your tenderness toward it is its balm.

Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

the shutting of the coffin is always disturbing. It is rather like going under a modern anesthetic on an operating table. Even a casual mistake on the part of an intruder might mean death.

Some people have a love of their fellow man in their hearts, and others require a light anesthetic.

anesthetic, darling," interjects Mum. "Or a nice cesarean!

Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges, fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because of the lip-loosening effects of anesthetic. Dreams reflected the ambient anxiety. One German dreamed that an SA man came to his home and opened the door to his oven, which then repeated every negative remark the household had made against the government.

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.

The colonel had a single vice—whiskey—and he looked forward to the anesthetic burn of the Kentucky bourbon with sublime anticipation.