Anaesthesia Quotes

I think we are slowly killing liberty, creativity, intelligent thinking; it's as if we are being led into a world that is like a huge shopping centre, with a sort of anaesthesia about everything except the choice of goods in front of us.

She smiled again. "Do you like cat?" she said. "Yes," said Richard. "I quite like cats." Anaesthesia looked relieved. "Thigh?" she asked, "or breast?

Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate.

In order that a "self" may exist there must be some continuity of mental experiences and, particularly, continuity bridging gaps of unconsciousness. For example, the continuity of our "self" is resumed after sleep, anaesthesia, and the temporary amnesias of concussion and convulsions.

Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain.

My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.

The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.

The only person in the world who could knock me out is my anaesthetist.

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.