Fevered Quotes
17 quotes by 15 authors
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War is a fevered god who takes alike maiden and king and clod....
— Hilda Doolittle
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Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers…
— Shana Alexander
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From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is…
— Emile Durkheim
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What part of confidante has that poor teapot played ever since the kindlyplant was introduced among us. Why myriads of women have cried over it,…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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I'm just trying to rid the world of all these fevered egos that are tainting our collective unconscious...
— Bill Hicks
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My life's long radiant Summer halts at last, And lo! beside my path way I behold Pursuing Autumn glide: nor frost nor cold Has heralded…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Christianity is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals, and then spread…
— Frederick The Great
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
— St. Jerome
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In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay, For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay.
— Richard Hovey
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Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
— Emile Durkheim
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So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold.…
— Clive Barker
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All the women of this fevered night, all that I had danced with, all whom I had kindled or who have kindled me, all whom…
— Hermann Hesse
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Dazed and disoriented, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of my arm--into the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires.
— Stephenie Meyer
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The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of…
— Cormac McCarthy
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I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into being, but left…
— Clive Barker
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The palm on your fevered brow, the soft kisses when you need them most, the grip that steadies you on rocky roads, the hand that…
— Sunita Sharma
Who Wrote These Fevered Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 17 Fevered Quotes as follows: