Anaesthetic Quotes

“The anaesthetic effect of habit being destroyed, I would begin to think - and to feel - such melancholy things.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“Mother: a humanoid thing blinded by bandages, nurturing breasts hidden, limbs restrained, tongue lolling from its slack mouth, and with no recognisable sweat signature.”
― Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine

“Fear is quite the anaesthetic”
― L. Ashley Straker, Infected Connection

“When, under ether, the mind is conscious but conscious of nothing (from East Coker)”
― T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets