Quotes and Sayings About Fever
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I'm sorry, but I don't get it. If we're supposed to ignore everything that's wrong with our lives, then I can't see how we'll ever make things right.
-- A.S. King -
We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
-- Adrienne Rich -
Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
-- Anais Nin -
I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
-- Antonin Artaud -
Up to 90% of the total decline in the death rate of children between 1860-1965 because of whooping cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and measles occurred before the introduction of immunisations and antibiotics.
-- Archie Kalokerinos -
The problem of individual differences and group differences would not be made to disappear by abolishing tests. One cannot treat a fever by throwing away the thermometer.
-- Arthur Jensen -
The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.
-- Bela Lugosi -
Laziness has many disguises. Soon "winter doldrums" will become "spring fever."
-- Bernard Williams -
I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.
-- Christopher Walken -
I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.
-- Daphne du Maurier -
I returned to upstate NY where I just laid in bed for days with a fever that just wouldn't go away. After more of this, I grew increasingly sure that this was not simply the flu!
-- Daryl Hall -
To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the ravishing world we have the privilege to inhabit.
-- Diane Ackerman -
Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.
-- Dorothea Dix -
Love was a fever that came along a few years after chicken-pox and measles and scarlet fever.
-- Eleanor Hallowell Abbott -
'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.
-- Felix Dennis -
If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.
-- Fernando Pessoa -
Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
The day will come when all nations amidst which the Jews are dwelling will have to raise the question of their wholesale expulsion, a question which will be one of life or death, good health or chronic disease, peaceful existence or perpetual social fever.
-- Franz Liszt -
There's nothing revolutionary about Saturday Night Fever . You can see the same kind of movement at your local disco.
-- Gene Kelly -
A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.
-- Guy de Maupassant -
You don't need treatment. The fever, inflammation, coughing, etc., constitute the healing process. Just get out of their way and permit them to complete their work. Don't try to 'aid' nature. She doesn't need your puny aid—she only asks that you cease interfering.
-- Herbert M. Shelton -
Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
-- Ignatius Loyola -
I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.
-- James Dickey -
At 'The Village Voice,' there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers.
-- James Wolcott -
Wedding fever is one of the scariest diseases I have ever seen.
-- Jessica Valenti -
Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality.
-- Joaquin Miller -
The second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. Its first symptom was falling hair. Diarrhea and fever, which in some cases went as high as 106, came next.
-- John Hersey -
I loved him like a fever. Then he left. He kicked through love like it was dust and he kept on walking.
-- Judy Blundell
