A KIND OF ILLNESS This ache in my chest is a relentless…

Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.

— Albert Camus

“Grief was a kind of illness, he maintained, and ran a course as predictable as measles or the common cold. Its fever always abated,…

— Patrick Gale

Art is a kind of illness.

— Giacomo Puccini

I do think it is a kind of illness in the sense that it sets you apart, it injects you with an endless, unslakable…

— Rebecca Miller

“But now he felt a deep ache in his chest—like that of a sore muscle—and each beat of his heart pained him. His”

— Christopher Paolini

“There is an ache in my chest today, sweet, searching, and painful, like a tongue that is cut and tingles with sweetness and pain…

— Binyavanga Wainaina

Heart broken-he felt a deep ache in his chest, like that of a sore muscle, and each beat of his heart pained him

— Christopher Paolini

“As I think of it, there’s an ache in my chest. I cannot control these dreams in which she seems to lie in my…

— James Salter

“I stare up into the dark with an ache in my chest that makes it hard to breathe. But not hard to think.”

— Ally Condie

Worry is different from fear. If fear is like a raging fever, worry is a low-grade temperature. It nags at us, simmers in our…

— Gerald Lawson Sittser

We got married in a fever hotter than a pepper sprout.

— June Carter Cash

Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.

— Anonymous

Hay fever suffers tend to be above average in intelligence.

— Andrew Tobias

Seven day of fever makes one weak

— Annu Ratha

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson