There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
My dear Hiram, cried Mrs. Otis, what can we do with a woman who faints? Charge it to her like breakages, answered the Minister; she won't faint after that;
- Oscar Wilde
It is Wisdom, Wisdom's self which gleameth through me; severing my cloudiness which yet again mantles over me, fainting from it, through the darkness which for my punishment gathers upon me.