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Quotes About Fever

I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too.
~ John Keats
Hoy las pulgas de la peste negra se han refugiado en las costuras de la Red, cuyos enlaces expanden una imbecilidad planetaria con fiebre y delirios en la mayoría de los usuarios, que no cesan de llenar de vómitos todo el espacio.
~ Unknown
Det som hadde begynt som en feber to år tidligere, var nå blitt nesten kaldt som is.
~ Unknown
learned to distinguish between these states which reigned alternately in my mind, during certain periods, going so far as to divide every day between them, each one returning to dispossess the other with the regularity of a fever and ague: contiguous, and yet so foreign to one another, so devoid of means of communication, that I could no longer understand, or even picture to myself, in one state what I had desired or dreaded or even done in the other.
~ Marcel Proust
Think you've got knocker fever. Come in to the inn tonight and get it cured up." "Maybe that's it," said Adam. "But I never took much satisfaction in a whore." "It's all the same," Charles said. "You shut your eyes and you can't tell the difference.
~ John Steinbeck
By fire, fever, storm and sword, your blood shall suffer this bane. No peace or joy for Wintersloe's lord, till the puzzle ring is whole again
~ Unknown
Many people associate stage fright with a fear of looking ridiculous, making a bad impression. For me, it's like a kind of fever.
~ Jeanne Moreau
Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.
~ Jeremy Taylor
Ingo was a fever, and so far she hadn't found the antidote.
~ Margaret Way
Last night on the show I had Olympics fever. Unfortunately, it's getting worse. That's not good. I have to call my doctor if my torch burns for more than four hours.
~ Craig Ferguson
Two months back, every ordinary fever cases were Covid, Nowadays, every cases are Dengue. This is called peak level of fooling patients and stripping them of money by doctors. When these vultures doctors be raided of their ill-gotten money
~ Unknown
I told you he had calico fever," he drawled in a Texas twang. "Why else would a young man mope around like a tick-fevered doggie?
~ Mary Connealy
He forgot that love, which is a madness, and a scourge, and a fever, and a delusion, and a snare, is also a mystery, and very imperfectly understood by everyone except the individual sufferer who writhes under its tortures.
~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Now love is so very subtle an essence, such an indefinable metaphysical marvel, that its due force, though very cruelly felt by the sufferer himself, is never clearly understood by those who look on at his torments and wonder why he takes the common fever so badly.
~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
There are times when American politics seems like little more than two groups in a fever to prevent each other from trespassing upon their respective soothing versions of unreality
~ Matt Taibbi
Puis, titubants, nous émergeâmes de l'ombre épaisse dans une autre moins dense, je compris que c'était la nuit, passagère - ce qui n'est pas éternel est si beau -, la nuit et la pluie d'été, je voulus tendre les mains pour qu'elle me lave de la boue souterraine, pour qu'elle éteigne ma fièvre, mais mes bras pendaient inertes, inutiles.
~ Meša Selimovi?
It was a queer feeling, exhausted but peaceful, as though her temperature had fallen for the first time after days of high fever. The end of something had been reached, the limit of some capacity for suffering.
~ Unknown
And the tale of the Flying Dutchman is thought to be the story of a yellow-fever-infected ship repeatedly denied port until all on board perished of the fever, and the ship was forced to sail endlessly, manned by a ghost crew, delivering detriment to other seafaring vessels.
~ Unknown
He didn't mean to be rude but at first glance this man seemed an exact model for the kind of person who comes to California to die, perfect in every detail down to fever eyes and unruly hands.
~ Nathanael West
That night Holmes awoke in a high fever and was delirious. As Freud and I sat by his bedside, each restraining the movement of his hands, he babbled of oysters overrunning the world and similar nonsense.* Freud listened with the greatest attention. "Is he fond of oysters?" he demanded of me during a quiet interval. I shrugged, too confused to answer accurately.
~ Nicholas Meyer
The gentleman also made searching inquiries concerning the hygienic condition of the countryside. Was there, he asked, much sickness about — whether sporadic fever, fatal forms of ague, smallpox, or what not? Yet, though his solicitude concerning these matters showed more than ordinary curiosity, his bearing retained its gravity unimpaired, and from time to time he blew his nose with portentous fervour.
~ Nikolai Gogol
It seems, regrettably, that not even genius can overcome the debilitating effects of a mild fever.
~ Osamu Dazai
It did not induce brain fever, or harm her so, belles lectrices. If we went down under every stroke in that way as novelists assume, we should all be loved of Heaven if that love be shown by early graves, as the old Greeks say.
~ Ouida
Here in Bosnia I had already seen several cases of rheumatic fever and a case we thought was miliary tuberculosis, diseases now rare in America. It was sobering to think that the mundane process of vaccinating these children might ultimately save more lives than any UN-brokered peace treaty.
~ Unknown