Fever Quotes

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We are so busy constantly checking our own temperatures, we fail to notice the burning fevers of others. — Neal A. Maxwell
To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
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… — Diane Ackerman
Often, though, the passivity of the woman's role weighs on me, suffocates me. Rather than wait for his pleasure, I would like to take it,… — Anais Nin
So the Midwest nourishes us [...] and presents us with the spectacle of a land and a people completed and certain. And so we run… — Annie Dillard
I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws. — Antonin Artaud
Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want… — Anais Nin
It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet… — John Steinbeck
Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night. We were waiting… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever,… — Aldo Leopold
I'm convinced true fulfillment is living in God's world one day at a time, savoring it, leaving today's disapointments behind and borrowing no troubles from… — Olive Ann Burns
These are the three main diseases of this country, sir: typhoid, cholera, and election fever. This last one is the worst; it makes people talk… — Aravind Adiga
But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
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
Beached under the spumy blooms, we lie Sea-sick and fever-dry. — Sylvia Plath
as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect,… — Niccolo Machiavelli
(Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and had finally reached those districts… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption. — Guy de Maupassant
In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked her down at… — Toni Morrison

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