Fever Quotes
292 quotes by 245 authors
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Sickness is the natural state in which we humans reside. We occasionally fall into brief brackets of health, only to return to our fevers, our…
— Lauren Slater
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I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about…
— Pierre Loti
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The old orchid hunter lay back on his pillow, his body limp... 'You'll curse the insects,' he said at least, 'and you'll curse the natives...…
— Susan Orlean
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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,…
— Daryl Hall
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I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las…
— Otis Blackwell
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Terrorism [is] a biological consequence of the multinationals, just as a day of fever is the reasonable price of an effective vaccine . . .…
— Umberto Eco
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Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful…
— Walter Scott
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The angling fever is a very real disease and can only be cured by the application of cold water and fresh, untainted air.
— Theodore Gordon
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I wish I could take language And fold it like cool, moist rags. I would lay words on your forehead. I would wrap words on…
— Julia Margaret Cameron
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And so she comes to dream herself the tree, The wind possessing her, weaving her young veins, Holding her to the sky and its quick…
— Hart Crane
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Mad, malevolent, and incantatory, The Orphan Palace reads like the hagridden fever dream of one who has not only stared the Abyss in Its black…
— Unknown Author
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At Leeds I've tried to concentrate on my club form, but you get caught up in all the World Cup fever once you come back…
— Robbie Keane
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My love is as a fever, longing still.
— William Shakespeare
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For listening to the stories of others ... is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough,…
— Mark Nepo
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Reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning.
— Phil Gingrey
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The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as…
— Ray Bradbury
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A time will come, when fields will be manured with a solution of glass (silicate of potash), with the ashes of burnt straw, and with…
— Justus von Liebig
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The theory of medicine, therefore, presents what is useful in thought, but does not indicate how it is to be applied in practice-the mode of…
— Avicenna
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Every man on earth is sick with the fever of sin, with the blindness of sin and is overcome with its fury. As sins consist…
— John of Kronstadt
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I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.
— James Dickey
Who Wrote These Fever Quotes
245 authors contributed a total of 292 Fever Quotes, led by these top contributors: