Feverish Quotes
55 quotes by 53 authors
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I admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment.
— Dean Koontz
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We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction.…
— Woodrow Wilson
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Coming before God in quietness & waiting upon Him in silence often can accomplish more than days of feverish activity.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead…
— George Bernard Shaw
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In a world of discouragement, sorrow, and overmuch sin, in times when fear and despair seem to prevail, when humanity is feverish with no worldly…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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The purpose of learning to employ every minute properly is to unclutter our hours, deliver us of feverish activity and earn us true leisure.
— Robert Updegraff
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A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own…
— Eric Hoffer
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I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of…
— Gary Hamel
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I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training…
— Susan Orlean
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The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the…
— Tom Robbins
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Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.
— Jack Kerouac
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I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced – only out of…
— A. S. Byatt
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The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine.
— Carol Shields
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The laughter in his deep-set black eyes, the feverish heat of his big hand around mine, the flash of his white teeth against his dark…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple—these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Last comes the class of persons, of nervous organization and enfeebled vigour, whose sensual appetite craves highly seasoned dishes, men of a hectic, over-stimulated constitution.…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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....love and desire enjoy a symbiotic relationship, meaning that one cannot exist without the other. Desire is an enemy to contentment; desire is illness, a…
— Lauren Oliver
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She lay down and never stirred. To move hand or foot, or even so much as one finger, would have been an exertion beyond the…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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I glance at the exit across the room. I want out. The bird in my chest is crashing up against its cage. I can feel…
— Han Nolan
Who Wrote These Feverish Quotes
53 authors contributed a total of 55 Feverish Quotes, led by these top contributors: