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Quotes About Lobotomy

I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good. "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" is pretty clever.
~ Alice Cooper
If we loved Steve Aylett , really loved him in the way that he deserves, a selfless love that genuinely wanted nothing save his happiness and comfort, we'd lobotomise him.
~ Alan Moore
If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.
~ Kathryn Schulz
Flabby, bald, lobotomized, he drifted in a sheepish calm, where no agonizing reappraisal jarred his concentration on the electric chair- hanging like an oasis on his air of lost connections...
~ Robert Lowell
I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.
~ Fred Allen
So when the lobotomy was embraced by some members of the medical profession in the late 1930s, it was because doctors were under extreme pressure to provide some relief to patients and their families.
~ Elizabeth Koelher-Pentacoff
It's time to resist efforts of the American Civil Liberties Union who have conducted a religious lobotomy on this country, seeking to strip it of any vestige of religious influence.
~ Cal Thomas
The week the local paper carried a story about the boy's incarceration and lobotomy in the state hospital at Rusk, the guys at the refinery pitched the kid's daddy a party complete with balloons and noisemakers.
~ Mary Karr
Science fiction used to be a dangerous literature. Now, it is a very commercial genre, and whatever dangers might still lurk within seem to have been safely sanitized for the marketplace. The real crime is that the lobotomy has been self performed. [David Gerrold - Afterword]
~ Harlan Ellison
Science fiction used to be a dangerous literature. Now, it is a very commercial genre, and whatever dangers might still lurk within seem to have been safely sanitized for the marketplace. The real crime is that the lobotomy has been self performed. I
~ Harlan Ellison
It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw.
~ Bill Watterson
I'd prefer to have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.
~ Frank Nicholson
I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.
~ Fred Allen
I can't guarantee that a lobotomy would stop her— babbling!!
~ Tennessee Williams
Cuando llegue el momento de mi lobotomía, ése es uno de los incidentes sociales que me propongo eliminar.
~ Carol Shields
If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.
~ Kathryn Schulz
What I'd like is a lobotomy, a clean job, the top of my head neatly sawn off and designated contents removed.
~ Carol Shields
I find the workload of what I do sufficiently great that when the term of court starts, I undergo a sort of annual intellectual lobotomy.
~ David Souter
The first glass is a sedative, the second a psychologist, the third glass an excuse, and the fourth a lobotomy.
~ Terri Guillemets
Do you know what lobotomy is?" - "I think so. It's when they operate and remove parts of your brain, right?" - "Right. Boyfriends are the same thing. They shrink your brain. Any female who really wants to be able to think for herself shouldn't be wasting her time on boys.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
She gives your son a lobotomy, and that's okay. Then she's mean to your dog and you get a divorce?
~ Unknown
In an attempt to learn more about what happened during a lobotomy, Freeman tried performing them with the patient wide awake, under local anesthesia. During one of these procedures, Freeman asked the patient, while cutting his brain tissue, what was going through his mind. "A knife," the patient said. Freeman told this story with pleasure for years.
~ Unknown
I want amnesia! I want a fucking lobotomy. Could I please never think again? Look what's happened to us, us, Tania. Don't you remember how we used to be? Just look what's happened.
~ Paullina Simons